Years ago I read One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus. The Vengeance Of Mothers is a follow up to that. This story is set in the 1870's in Montana territory, before Custer's last stand. The United States Government is trying to eradicate the native people by killing all the buffalo and waging war on them. They also had a program of enlisting white women to marry native people. These women came from prisons, asylums, brothels, and adventurers. So later when the government came back to war against those brides and their offspring, the vengeance of mothers was aroused. The story is told in the journals of Meggie Kelly, an Irish orphan who grew up in the streets of Chicago, and Molly McGill, a farmer's daughter from Maine. I enjoyed reading how the white women blended into the Cheyenne culture. Some of them found happiness.
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