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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 dry and bleach at the foot of the hogback." Ruled by Gulla Slogum, the house was headquarters for a clan that terrorized what it couldn't seduce or steal. Using her daughter as poisoned bait and her sons as predators, Gulla plotted to put a whole county under her control. She had be...

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, the archetypal pioneer woman who was Mari's mother, and, siblings, chums, neighbors, homesteaders, and Indians.

By zealous research, keen observation, and wide-ranging and deeply probing commentary, Mari Sandoz has become one of the most famous and well-respected interpreters of the American West. Old Jules Country is made up of the region that Sandoz has written about most frequently -- the High Plains of the Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming -- the Black Hills, the Bad Lands, the sandhills, and the great rivers: the Missouri, the Platte, and the...

Mari Sandoz came out of the Sandhills of Nebraska to write at least three enduring books: Old Jules, Cheyenne Autumn, and Crazy Horse, the Strange man of the Oglalas. She was a tireless researcher, a true story-teller, an artist passionately dedicated to a place little know and a people largely misunderstood.

Here in one volume are Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country, a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and the Oglala) and other Indian pieces, a novelette, "Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman", and nine short stories, mostly with a rural setting, including "The Vine, " her first to be published. Introduced by an autogiographical sketch of the author's early years and linked by a commentary derived from her letters, ar...

Miss Morissa" is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. 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 frontier society, while Indians roam the plains refusing to surrender their land to the gold-hungry white men. Near lawless Clark...

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Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an Edison phonograph and boxes of cylinder records from the East, paying for them with an inheritance and ignoring debts, to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife. But the entire family soon entered into the holiday spirit as neighbors arrived to feast and dance and enjoy musical selections rangin...

Mari Sandoz's account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life--and lost--reveals on every page the author's intimate knowledge of her subject. The character of the Sioux, the personality of Custer, the mixed emotions of Custer's men, the Plains landscape--all emerge with such clarity that the reader is transported in time to that spring of 1876, when the Army of the Plains began its fateful march toward the Yello...

The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them, " writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade, takes the reader far inside a world of rituals surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle.

Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social non-conformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange, " fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government's efforts to confine the Lakotas to reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, only to meet a violent death. More than a century later Crazy Horse continue...

Mari Sandoz (1896¿1966) is the noted author of Old Jules, ¿The Buffalo Hunters, and The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire, all available in Bison Books editions. Ron Hull, president emeritus of the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society, is senior advisor to Nebraska Educational Telecommunications and professor emeritus of broadcasting at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln.

Mari Sandoz (1896¿1966) is the noted author of The Buffalo Hunters, The Cattlemen, and The Battle of the Little Bighorn (all available in Bison Books editions).¿Andrew R. Graybill is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln and the author of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875¿1910 (Nebraska 2007).

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. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of "The Buffalo Hunters." Mari Sandoz's vast canvas is charged with color and excitement--accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, and famous frontier characters such a...

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 'Robert Henri'. This work is Robert's story, the story of a sensitive talented boy growing up in the midst of frontier violence.

Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.

Sandoz offers a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains. This is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble.