The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill :a novel
(Large Print)
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Large Print Fiction
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Cheyenne Indians -- Fiction.
Diary fiction.
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Government relations -- Fiction.
Interracial marriage -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Retribution -- Fiction.
Western stories.
Whites -- West (U.S.) -- Relations with Indians -- Fiction.
Women, White -- Fiction.
Diary fiction.
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Government relations -- Fiction.
Interracial marriage -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Retribution -- Fiction.
Western stories.
Whites -- West (U.S.) -- Relations with Indians -- Fiction.
Women, White -- Fiction.
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
615 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Street Date
1709
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Subtitle from cover.
General Note
Unabridged.
Description
9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance... So begins the Journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the U.S. government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation was for one thousand white women to be given as brides in exchange for three hundred horses.