The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

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.

When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West, hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the expedition's goal is complicated when they encounter a wild Apache girl in a Mexican jail cell, victim of a Mexican massacre of her tribe that has left her orphaned and unwilling to eat or speak.

As he and the expedition make their way through the rugged Sierra Madre mountains, Ned's growing feelings for the troubled girl soon force him to choose allegiances and make a decision that will haunt him forever.

Author: Jim Fergus
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781401300548

Review Citation(s):
Newsweek 05/02/2005 pg. 64
Booklist 04/15/2005 pg. 1432
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2005 pg. 54
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 89 - Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2005 pg. 304

About the Author
Jim Fergus has been a freelance journalist for twenty-five years. His work has appeared in a wide variety of national magazines and newspapers and he is the author of two nonfiction books, A Hunter's Road and The Sporting Road. His first novel, One Thousand White Women, published in 1998, won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association fiction award.