Jim Fergus has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 24 ratings. The most-rated is One Thousand White Women.
One Thousand White Women
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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 lifetimes. Author Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.
©1998 Jim Fergus (P)2006 BBC Audiobooks America
The Vengeance of Mothers
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"Laura Hicks renders this imaginative work splendidly. She is vivacious and expressive as May Dodd...Her vocal characterizations, especially of the various immigrant women Dodd encounters, are lively. A work this unusual needs a performance that is versatile and out of the ordinary, both of which have been achieved." - AudioFile on One Thousand White Women. The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women. 9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance.... So begins the journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation was for one thousand white women to be given as brides in exchange for 300 horses. These "brides" were mostly fallen women; women in prison, prostitutes, the occasional adventurer, or those incarcerated in asylums. No one expected this program to work. The brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at freedom. But many of them fell in love with the Cheyenne's spouses and had children with them...and became Cheyenne themselves. The Vengeance of Mothers is an audiobook that explores what happens to the bonds between wives and husbands, children and mothers, when society sees them as "unspeakable". What does it mean to be white, to be Cheyenne, and how far will these women go to avenge the ones they love? As he did in One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus brings to light a time and place in American history and fills it with unforgettable characters who live and breathe with a passion we can relate to even today.
©2017 Jim Fergus (P)2017 Macmillan Audio
Les Amazones
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Mille femmes blanches : L'héritage 1875. Un chef cheyenne propose au président Grant d'échanger mille chevaux contre mille femmes blanches, afin de les marier à ses guerriers. Celles-ci, " recrutées " de force dans les pénitenciers et les asiles du pays, intègrent peu à peu le mode de vie des Indiens, au moment où commencent les grands massacres des tribus. 1876. Après la bataille de Little Big Horn, quelques survivantes décident de prendre les armes contre cette prétendue " civilisation " qui vole aux Indiens leurs terres, leur mode de vie, leur culture et leur histoire. Cette tribu fantôme de femmes rebelles va bientôt passer dans la clandestinité pour livrer une bataille implacable, qui se poursuivra de génération en génération. Dans cet ultime volume de la trilogie Mille femmes blanches, Jim Fergus mêle avec une rare maestria la lutte des femmes et des Indiens face à l'oppression, depuis la fin du xixe siècle jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Avec un sens toujours aussi fabuleux de l'épopée romanesque, il dresse des portraits de femmes aussi fortes qu'inoubliables.
©2019 Jim Fergus / Titre original : "Strongheart" / Le cherche midi, pour la traduction française (P)2019 Lizzie, un département d’Univers Poche, Paris
Strongheart
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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. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Griffin
©2021 Jim Fergus (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
Mille femmes blanches
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"Un roman splendide, puissant et engagé." Jim Harrison En 1874, à Washington, le président Grant accepte 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 viennent en réalité des pénitenciers et des asiles... L'une d'elles, May Dodd, apprend sa nouvelle vie de squaw et les rites 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, elle assiste à l'agonie de son peuple d'adoption...
©1997 / 2000 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN / Le cherche midi éditeur pour la traduction française. Traduit par Jean-Luc Piningre (P)2019 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris