Mille femmes blanches

Mille femmes blanches
Author: Jim Fergus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2002
Genre: Cheyenne (Indiens)
ISBN: 9782266110785

En 1874, à Washington, le président américain Grant accepte dans le plus grand secret la proposition incroyable du chef indien Little Wolf : troquer mille femmes blanches contre chevaux et bisons pour favoriser l'intégration du peuple indien. Si quelques femmes se portent volontaires, la plupart des " Mille femmes " viennent en réalité des pénitenciers et des asiles de tous les Etats-Unis d'Amérique... Parvenue dans les contrées reculées du Nebraska, l'une d'entre elles, May Dodd, apprend alors sa nouvelle vie de squaw et les rites inconnus des Indiens. Mariée à un puissant guerrier, elle découvre les combats violents entre tribus et les ravages provoqués par l'alcool. Aux côtés de femmes de toutes origines, May Dodd assiste alors à la lente agonie de son peuple d'adoption...

The Wild Girl

The Wild Girl
Author: Jim Fergus
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 140138241X

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. 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!

Strongheart

Strongheart
Author: Jim Fergus
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250200997

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.

The Vengeance of Mothers

The Vengeance of Mothers
Author: Jim Fergus
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250093422

"The vengeance of mothers" explores the bonds among family and community, the search for identity and belonging, during a time of tumultous change in our nation's history. What is a "native" American? Are all men and their wives created equal? How far wil Margaret and her countrywomen go to fight for what's theirs, and what's already gone?

A Hunter's Road

A Hunter's Road
Author: Jim Fergus
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1429900318

In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty Lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America.

One Thousand White Women

One Thousand White Women
Author: Jim Fergus
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429938846

Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, 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. 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. 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.” —Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump

Historic Paris

Historic Paris
Author: Jetta Sophia Wolff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1921
Genre: Paris (France)
ISBN:

Français Interactif

Français Interactif
Author: Karen Kelton
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781937963200

This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.

Painted Love

Painted Love
Author: Hollis Clayson
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367296

In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.

The Code of Terpsichore

The Code of Terpsichore
Author: Carlo Blasis
Publisher: Dance Books Limited
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2000-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781852731267