Jim Fergus divides his time between southern Arizona, northern Colorado, and France, ( Adapted from the author's website.) The sequel, The Mothers of Vengeance, follows white women married to Cheyennes who seek vengeance after their husbands and children were killed during a raid by U.S. Set in the 1920s, the novel is a love story based on the life of a true life woman painter, Chrysis Jungbluth.įergus published a follow-up in 2017 to his widely known One Thousand White Women. In 2013, Fergus published another novel, first in France as Chrysis: Portrait de l’Amour, later that year in the U.S. Marie-Blanche, which he published in France in 2011, is historical fiction set in France and based on his own family - the complex and ultimately fatal relationship between Fergus’s French mother and grandmother. That book was followed in 2005 with his second novel, The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, historical fiction set in the 1930’s in Chicago, Arizona, and the Sierra Madre of Mexico. In 1999, Fergus published The Sporting Road, a collection of outdoor articles and essays. The novel won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association and has since sold over a million copies in the U.S. The LA Times called it 'an absorbing, provocative, and even enchanting book.'įergus’s first novel, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd came out in 1998.

There he began freelance writing full time, publishing 100s of articles, essays, and interviews for various national publications.Ī devoted traveler, Fergus published his first book, a travel/sporting memoir titled, A Hunter's Road, in 1992. He attended high school in Massachusetts and headed out West to study English at Colorado College.Īfter working as a tennis pro for 10 years, in 1980 he moved to Rand, Colorado, with its 13 residents. Fergus was born in Chicago his mother was French mother and father American. Jim Fergus is an American born author, best know for his 1998 novel Ten Thousand White Woman. Currently-divides his time between Arizona, Colorado, and France.Awards-Mountains & Plains Booksellers Assn.Read the novel's 2017 sequel: The Mothers of Vengenace.

Caught between two worlds and two men, Dodd is forced to make tough decisions that will change her life forever. She soon falls in love with John Bourke, a gallant young army captain, even though she is married to the great chief Little Wolf. Will Dodd (Intro), 1998īased on actual historical events, One Thousand White Women is the poignant story of May Dodd's journey west.Ĭommitted to an insane asylum by her blueblood family for an affair with a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope of freedom is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from the 'civilized' world become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus