The Red Book Club

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Upcoming Events

February's event will be hosted by Kim S, and we'll meet at Emma's Restaurant on Sunday, February 29th, at 7 PM.

Our book selection is One Thousand White Women. The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus.

One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. A government program, in which women are brought west as brides for the Cheyenne, is her vehicle. What follows is the story of May's adventures: her marriage to Little Wolf, chief of the Cheyenne nation, and her conflict of being caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time. Some discussion questions are here.

"I've wanted to be a novelist since I was 15 years old," Fergus says. Born in Chicago in 1950, Fergus graduated with a degree in English from Colorado College in 1971, and it is there that he began his career. He began writing for newspapers, and letter worked for outdoor magazines. "Journalism is a way to make a living, but I never gave up on the dream," he says. Fergus has met with success as a full-time freelance journalist. He has published hundreds of articles in an assortment of publications, including Newsweek, Newsday, The Paris Review, Outdoor Life, The Denver Post and The Dallas Times-Herald. He currently writes a monthly column for an outdoors Internet site sponsored by Jeep and is a contributing editor of Sports Afield. He also is the author of a nonfiction book entitled, "A Hunter's Road: A Journey with Gun and Dog Across the American Uplands." more...