St. Martin's Press“The Vengeance of Mothers” by Jim Fergus “Hell hath no fury like the vengeance of mothers,” writes Jim Fergus in the sequel to his best-selling “One Thousand White Women.” Both books are based on a fictitious 1870s Brides-for-Indians program in which the government agrees to send 1,000 white women to the Cheyenne as brides, in exchange for an equal number of horses. The first book ended tragically, as government troops attacked the Cheyenne village where the brides lived, killing virtually all of them, along with their babies.