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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 Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight.

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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 subject. Historian Elaine Marie Nelson introduces this iconic work to a new generation.

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First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, "Capital City" is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s--John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath, " John Conroy's "The Disinherited, " Robert Cantwell's "Land of Plenty"--"Capital City" depicts the troubles and responses of working people trapped in the Great Depression. It is a unique portrayal of the depression in the G...

This thundering book by the author of Old Jules is the story of the vast cattle industry of the American West, stupendous in length, concept, and achievement, it is the result of a lifetime of knowledge and research....The whole story is here, long but never dull, written with humor and understatement.'--Kirkus Service

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First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, "Capital City" is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s--John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath, " Jack Conroy's "The Disinherited, " Robert Cantwell's "Land of"Plenty--Capital City" depicts the troubles of working people trapped in the Great Depression. A unique portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains,...

-New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review "A vigorous and thoughtful novel. " -New York Times "There is a good deal of America in the book, and the narrative teems with violent energy."-New Yorker

A young Sioux warrior earns the right to be called historian for his tribe after numerous adventures and trials which test his ability to tell the story of his people with truth and courage.

When a school bus overturns in a blinding blizzard, a young teacher and her pupils are stranded miles from anywhere for eight days.

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 wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts, " Sandoz recalls. "Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything that go...

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 Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight. Alan Boye provides an introduction to this Bison Books edition.