![]() ![]() I have also learned via Wikipedia that “the spark for this novel was an actual historical event that occurred in 1854. I have learned that the first novel “The Journals of May Dodd” has been made into a movie. Living with the Cheyenne would be as equally dangerous and as hard a lifestyle yet still desirable than to returning to prisons or asylums. When given their freedom they decided to stay. Originally, this batch of women was held as hostages by the Native Americans. But when Molly arrives in the West, the program is virtually defunct, and the group of Cheyenne she was sent to meet is now on the run. The second journal we read in this story belongs to Molly McGill, another woman sent to marry into the Cheyenne tribe. The title of the novel comes from the sisters’ desire for revenge on the US Calvary. ![]() soldiers while they were waving a white flag, in a raid that leaves their children and husbands dead. ![]() The Kelly sisters were part of the original story, “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd.” In “Vengeance” the reader learns that their village is destroyed by U.S. ![]() Set in the 1800’s the book begins with the journals of two sisters, the Kelly twins, who were part of the Wives for Indians Program that sent “undesirable” women from prisons and asylums to marry Native Americans of the Cheyenne Nation as a means to encourage assimilation. I did have the feeling that I was missing the first part, but I wasn’t at all confused, meaning one can read it alone. When I read this historical novel I wasn’t aware that it is a sequel. ![]()
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