And in the spring of 2005, his second novel, The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles was published by Hyperion Press. In 1999, Jim Fergus published a collection of outdoor articles and essays, titled The Sporting Road.
An international bestseller, One Thousand White Women (Milles Femmes Blanches) was also on the French bestseller list for fifty-seven weeks and has sold well over 400,000 copies in that country. It has since sold over 250,000 copies in the United States. The novel won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association, and has become a favorite selection of reading groups across the country. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Kirsch called A Hunter's Road, "An absorbing, provocative, and even enchanting book."įergus' first novel, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd was published by St. His first book, a travel/sporting memoir titled, A Hunter's Road, was published by Henry Holt in 1992. His articles, essays, interviews and profiles have appeared in a wide variety of national magazines and newspapers, including Newsweek, Newsday, The Denver Post, the Dallas-Times Herald, Harrowsmith Country Life, The Paris Review, MD Magazine, Savvy, Texas Monthly, Esquire, Fly Fisherman, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, and Field & Stream. He was a contributing editor of Rocky Mountain Magazine, as well as a correspondent of Outside magazine. 13), to begin his career as a full-time freelance writer. For ten years he worked as a teaching tennis professional in Colorado and Florida, and in 1980 moved to the tiny town of Rand, Colorado (pop. He has traveled extensively and lived over the years in Colorado, Florida, the French West Indies, Idaho, France, and Arizona. He attended high school in Massachusetts and graduated as an English major from Colorado College in 1971. What follows is a series of breathtaking adventures-May's brief, passionate romance with the gallant young army captain John Bourke her marriage to the great chief Little Wolf and her conflict of being caught between loving two men and living two completely different lives."Fergus portrays the perceptions and emotions of women.with tremendous insight and sensitivity."-Booklist"A superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph.Jim Fergus was born in Chicago on March 23, 1950. Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from "civilized" society become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. Based on an actual historical event, this is the story of May Dodd-a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd's journey into an unknown world.
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