Jim Fergus began his career as a full-time freelance writer in 1980. His articles, essays, interviews, and profiles have appeared in a wide variety of national magazines and newspapers. His first novel, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd 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.
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 wor...[SEE MORE]