The Wild Girl Now in Paperback 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. One Thousand White Women One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.