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Jim Fergus, born in 1950, is an American author known for his historical novels. His works combine historical events with fictional characters, creating captivating stories. Fergus's novels are characterized by their deep historical background and rich cultural connotations.

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“I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.”

Heartbreak Forgetting

Book:One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Source: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinion is a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks”

Happiness Introspection Self Reflection Subsistence

Book:One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Source: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.”

Thinking Book Odd Chapters Volume

Book:One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Source: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?”

Knows Lasts Laughing Tears Defense

Book:One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Source: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks”

Thinking Humans White Conditions Reflection Good Things Folks Human Condition Self Reflection Overrated

Book:One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Source: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.”

Mother Medicine Saved

Book:One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Source: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.”

Criminals Gods Will Fulfillment Heroic Justified Atrocities Conqueror

Book:The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

Source: The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

“The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Would Be Fall Church Human Beings Talking Feet Solitude Quiet Conversation Travel Silent Regions Midst Sierra Pristine Primeval

Book:The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

Source: The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

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Born: 1950
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