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    Mari Sandoz: Story Catcher of the Plains

    Helen Winter Stauffer

    As a historian and as a novelist Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) stands in the front rank of western writers. This biography shows the relationship between Sandoz’s life and experiences and her…

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    Winter Thunder

    Mari Sandoz

    In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver - a mere boy - are stranded in the open country, miles from…

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    Love Song to the Plains

    Mari Sandoz

    Presents a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains. This title tells: of a story of men and women of…

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    Son of the Gamblin’ Man: The Youth of an Artist

    Mari Sandoz

    Features the story of a gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, who became a world-famous artist and teacher known as…

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    The Story Catcher

    Mari Sandoz

    Young Lance is his father’s son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his seeing medicine…

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    The Tom-Walker

    Mari Sandoz

    The patriarch, Milt Stone, who lost a leg fighting in Grant’s army, is the Tom-Walker, slang for man on stilts. After the Civil War he takes his family west to…

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    The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection

    Mari Sandoz

    Tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska, when Mari Sandoz’s father’s house was filled with good music. But, the entire family soon entered into the holiday spirit, as neighbors…

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    Sandhill Sundays and Other Recollections

    Mari Sandoz

    Dealing with the aspects of the Old West, this title offers an introduction to Sandoz Country. It introduces people such as: the Sandoz patriarch, the fiery libertarian Old Jules; Marlizzie…

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    Slogum House

    Mari Sandoz

    Slogum House lay on the winter flat of Oxbow like the remains of some great, hulking animal that had foraged the region long ago, leaving its old gray carcass to…

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    These Were the Sioux

    Mari Sandoz

    The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them, writes the author about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska…

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    The Battle of the Little Bighorn

    Mari Sandoz

    An account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life - and lost - that reveals on every page the author’s intimate knowledge of her subject.

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    Miss Morissa: Doctor of the Gold Trail

    Mari Sandoz

    Fleeing the East and a heartbreaking past, Morissa Kirk finds the North Platte River Valley rife with rumors of gold strikes. Fortune hunters, desperadoes, horse thieves, murderers make up the…

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    Old Jules Country: A Selection from Old Jules and Thirty Years of Writing after the Book was Published

    Mari Sandoz

    Presents selections from the author’s works. This book features such essays The Lost Sitting Bull and The Homestead in Perspective.

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    The Horsecatcher

    Mari Sandoz

    Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz’s first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne…

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    Sandoz Studies, Volume 1: Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz

    This is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. The scholarly essays…

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    Mari Sandoz’s Native Nebraska: The Plains Indian Country

    Laverne Harrell Clark,Laverne Harrell Clark

    When the Mari Sandoz High Plains Center opens in Chadron, Nebraska in 2001, it will be one of three centers at which Nebraska honors its outstanding writers. Through the compilation…

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    Mari Sandoz’s Native Nebraska: The Plains Indian Country

    Laverne Harrell Clark,Laverne Harrell Clark

    When the Mari Sandoz High Plains Center opens in Chadron, Nebraska in 2001, it will be one of three centers at which Nebraska honors its outstanding writers. Through the compilation…

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    Capital City

    Mari Sandoz

    First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, this novel is a portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains. It examines the forces that bitterly…

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    The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande across the Far Marias, Second Edition

    Mari Sandoz

    Tells the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early Spanish days to Mari Sandoz’s…

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    Cheyenne Autumn, Second Edition

    Mari Sandoz

    In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in…

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    The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, Second Edition

    Mari Sandoz

    In 1867, conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred…

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    The Battle of the Little Bighorn

    Mari Sandoz

    Mari Sandoz’s beautifully written account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life in 1876–and lost it–reveals on every page the author’s intimate knowledge of her…

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    The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire, Second Edition

    Mari Sandoz

    Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham’s…

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    Old Jules

    Mari Sandoz

    First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the…

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    Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas

    Mari Sandoz

    Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose social non-conformity contributed to his reputation as being strange, fought in many famous battles, and held out tirelessly against…

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    I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965

    Author Mari Sandoz was as passionate about Plains peoples as she was about language and literary acclaim. That the mastery of Crazy Horse’s biographer spilled into her zealous advocacy for…

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    Cheyenne Autumn

    Mari Sandoz

    In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the US government, to return to their homeland in…

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    Cheyenne Autumn

    Mari Sandoz

    In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the US government, to return to their homeland in…

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    A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux

    Helen H. Blish

    Originally published in 1967, this pictographic history consists of more than four hundred drawings and script notations by Amos Bad Heart Bull, an Oglala Lakota man from the Pine Ridge…

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    Old Jules

    Mari Sandoz

    Features a biography of the author’s father.

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