The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill

About “The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill”

Presented as the journal of Margaret Kelly, who begins writing on 9 March 1876 with her twin sister Susie after their village was destroyed. Kelly had participated in the government's 1873 "Brides for Indians" program, exchanging one thousand white women as brides for three hundred horses to secure peace with the Cheyenne Nation.