What is the author's style in One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus?

Fergus has May's writing tinged with some old-fashioned words, but reflecting a woman author who was ahead of her time. Extremely well educated, May was fluent in French and English, and eventually in Cheyenne. Fergus makes her writing style descriptive and flowing and at times, abrupt, depending upon what is taking place around her. May is a romantic, tending to add drama to the events in the earlier sections of her journal. Over time, experiencing many hardships and unfortunate events, her writing becomes less dramatic, more realistic and mature. She remains somewhat idealistic, but her rich life with the Indians is reflected in the grounded and more mature tone of her writing as the journal progresses.