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

- Jim Fergus

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,…

- Jim Fergus

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

- Jim Fergus

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

- Jim Fergus

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…

- Jim Fergus

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 hig…

- Jim Fergus