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Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White
Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and
the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President
Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one
thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and
create a lasting peace. These women, recruited by force in the
penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate the
way of life of the Cheyenne, at the time when the great massacres
of the tribes begin. After the battle of Little Big Horn, some
female survivors decide to take up arms against the United States,
which has stolen from the Native Americans their lands, their way
of life, their culture and their history. This ghost tribe of
rebellious women will soon go underground to wage an implacable
battle, which will continue from generation to generation. In this
final volume of the One Thousand White Women trilogy, Jim Fergus
mixes with rare mastery the struggle of women and Native Americans
in the face of oppression, from the end of the 19th century until
today. With a vivid sense of the 19th century American West, Fergus
paints portraits of women as strong as they are unforgettable.
One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.
The new novel by the author of the international bestseller, ONE
THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN. After recovering from grave wounds suffered
in The Great War, Bogey Lambert, a young cowboy from Colorado,
makes his way to 1920s Paris, where he encounters the beautiful
painter, Chrysis Jungbluth. Precocious, passionate, talented, the
free-spirited Chrysis rebels against a society and an art world in
which men have all the privilege and women none. By day, a serious
student at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, at night Chrysis
loses herself to the sensual pleasures of the Montparnasse
nightlife, where all seems permissible. There, she and the American
cowboy will live the love of a lifetime."
From the award-winning author of One Thousand White Women, a novel
in the tradition of Little Big Man, tracing one man's search for
adventure and the wild Apache girl who invites him into her world
When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West, hoping to
leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache
Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy
Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the
expedition's goal is complicated when they encounter a wild Apache
girl in a Mexican jail cell, victim of a Mexican massacre of her
tribe that has left her orphaned and unwilling to eat or speak. As
he and the expedition make their way through the rugged Sierra
Madre mountains, Ned's growing feelings for the troubled girl soon
force him to choose allegiances and make a decision that will haunt
him forever.
From renowned outdoor writer Jim Fergus comes this collection which represents a kind of extended journey across the country from Colorado to Florida and points beyond. From pheasant hunting at Nebraska's Fort Robinson to bone fishing on the flats of Grand Exuma, Bahamas, these 32 essays, arranged by season, chronicle Fergus's most memorable travels hunting and fishing over a period of 6 years. A book about the natural world and man's place in it, The Sporting Road is also a book about relationships, which for Fergus include old friends, new acquaintances, and his trusted yellow lab, Sweetzer.
There are estimated to be more than six million bird hunters in
America, every one of whom has dreamed of the kind of epic hunting
season that Jim Fergus lives in A Hunter's Road - 17,000 miles in 5
months, pursuing 21 different game bird species across 24 states.
But one need not be a bird hunter to enjoy this picaresque
adventure; and far more important than the statistics are the
hundreds of miles on foot that Fergus and his trusty yellow Lab,
Sweetzer, cover in the course of their longest season - tramping
the mountains, plains, prairies, fields, forests, marshes, deltas,
and deserts of America - both alone and with a host of memorable
companions. A Hunter's Road profiles one man's personal journey
into the romance of the open country, touching on the history,
sociology, politics, and economics of bird hunting in America,
while addressing the issue of hunting ethics and the burgeoning
antihunting movement in this country - the latter, in Fergus's
opinion, reflecting our increasing estrangement from the natural
world. A thoughtful and sometimes troubling exploration of the
health and well-being of what remains of the American countryside,
A Hunter's Road is by turns poignant, humorous, lyric, opinionated,
and unflinchingly honest. It is destined to become an American
sporting classic.
Now in paperback, a stirring historical novel from the author of
One Thousand White Women When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager,
he heads West, hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the
1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the
son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by wild
Apaches. But the expedition's goal is complicated when they
encounter a wild Apache girl in a Mexican jail cell, victim of a
Mexican massacre of her tribe that has left her orphaned and
unwilling to eat or speak. As he and the expedition make their way
through the rugged Sierra Madre mountains, Ned's growing feelings
for the troubled girl soon force him to choose allegiances and make
a decision that will haunt him forever. In this novel based on
historical fact, Jim Fergus takes readers on a journey of
magnificent sweep and heartbreaking consequence peopled with
unforgettable characters. With prose so vivid that the road dust
practically rises off the page, The Wild Girl is an epic novel
filled with drama, peril, and romance, told by a master. This is
the novel your reading group will be talking about long past your
discussion!
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Pheasant Tales (Paperback)
Countrysport; Edited by Doug Truax, Art DeLaurier; Illustrated by Eldridge Hardie; Contributions by John Barsness, …
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The stories in this anthology demonstrate why the pheasant has
become America's favorite game bird. Some of the finest writers in
the field take their best shots at the Ringneck, covering guns,
dogs, lore, history, conservation, and even some tried and true
methods for preparing your pheasant for consumption.
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