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1	Cheyenne autumn more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Sandoz's retelling of the Cheyenne and the Trail of Tears emphasizes the tribe's humanity, the tragedy of their loss, and the simple heroism they exhibited. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Crazy Horse, the strange man of the Oglalas more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Originally published in the first half of the 20th century, this classic biography of Crazy Horse, the wise, proud, and heroic leader of the Cheyenne, is told from the Sioux point of view. Sandoz grew up in Nebraska hearing firsthand reports of Crazy Horse, and she interviewed several Sioux who actually knew him. see all copies from $3.39! new only from $9.21! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Battle of the Little Bighorn more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Mari Sandoz retells the story of Little Big Horn, the 1876 battle in which Custer and his men were decimated by the Sioux and the Cheyenne. She takes particular note of Custer's flamboyant personality, the attitudes of his men in the U.S. Cavalry toward the feasibility of the battle, and the complex characteristics of the native tribes, and she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.23! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	These Were the Sioux more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist '"These Were the Sioux" compels attention because it is authoritative; it compels admiration because it was written from the heart' - V.P. Hass, "Chicago Sunday Tribune". 'The Sioux book gives the lore and logic of Indian life. It is rapid reading. Yet it unobtrusively overflows with Miss Sandoz's lifetime love and respect for these plains ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.38! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Old Jules more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Mari Sandoz's biography of her father, one of the earliest settlers of Nebraska, is a classic of western writing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Miss Morissa: Doctor of the Gold Trail more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist 'Beautifully written and full of striking images and masterful descriptions' - "New York Times". 'A novel that has everything - a plot you won't be able to lay aside' - "Denver Post". "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Cattlemen from the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist "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 "Here, tough as whang leather ... see all copies from $4.44! new only from $24.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Sandoz writes sensitively of the astonishing trade in buffalo hides in the Old West, and explores the implications of the slaughter for the history of the area. see all copies from $3.12! new only from $9.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Covering more than two centuries, "The Beaver Men" ranges from the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham's Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. 'This book is not so much an historical study as a careful and intelligently drawn portrait of a world...that of the Great ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Winter Thunder more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist A young school teacher, a sixteen-year-old bus driver, and seven pupils are forced out into a blizzard when their school bus tips over. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.28! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Sandhill Sundays and Other Recollections more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist "No one in our time wrote better than the late Mari Sandoz did, or with more authority and grace, about as many aspects of the Old West," said John K. Hutchens. The proof of that is in her powerful re-creation of pioneer days in the Sandhills of northwestern Nebraska in these autobiographical pieces written between 1929 and 1965. Those who have ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.75! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Slogum House more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.19! new only from $23.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Old Jules Country: A Selection from Old Jules and Thirty Years of Writing Since the Book Was Published more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Old Jules: 50th Anniversary Edition more books like this by Mari Sandoz, Helen Stauffer Winter (Afterword by) add to wishlist Mari Sandoz's biography of her father, one of the earliest settlers of Nebraska, is a classic of western writing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.21! \| first editions
15 view cover	Crazy Horse, the strange man of the Oglalas; a biography. more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to confine the Sioux on reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, one of the last ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	Old Jules: Portrait of a Pioneer more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Mari Sandoz's biography of her father, one of the earliest settlers of Nebraska, is a classic of western writing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.13! \| first editions
17 view cover	Horsecatcher, The-Pa more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.14! \| SVS
18 view cover	Capital city more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Love Song to the Plains more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist "Love Song to the Plains" is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues - courageous, violent, in-domitable, foolish - their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Story Catcher more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist 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. With eyes growing sharper, he watches the warring between tribes, the buffalo hunting, the daily routine-and shows it all in pictures drawn in the dust or on skins with charcoal and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Tom-Walker more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist A hold, biting novel by the author of "Old Jules (BB 100) and Crazy Horse (BB 110)", "The Tom-Walker" spans three generations in a Midwestern family. The patriarch, Milt Stone, who lost a leg fighting in Grant's army, is the Tom-Walker, circus slang for man on stilts. After the Civil War he takes his family west to the Missouri country. There he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Letters of Mari Sandoz more books like this by Mari Sandoz, Helen W. Stauffer (Editor) add to wishlist 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 storyteller, an artist passionately dedicated to a place little known and a people largely misunderstood. Blasted by some critics, revered ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.00!
23	Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist: A Novel more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist 'The story tells of the 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 tale is essentially Robert's story, the story of a sensitive talented boy growing up in the midst of frontier violence. But it is also the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $51.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist "Mari Sandoz's tiny book is beautiful...This reminiscence is a vivid reminder to us...of how eagerly grasped, how deeply treasured, were the bits of culture that did make their way to the frontier." - "Western Folklore". "There have been many nostalgic accounts of Christmas remembrances, but none quite as distinctive as "The Christmas of the ... see all copies from $2.28! new only from $4.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	Hostiles & Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz more books like this by Mari Sandoz add to wishlist 'A book that will delight Miss Sandoz's wide and admiring audience' - K. Ross Toole, "History News". 'Sandoz's compressed and iron-biting style, which cuts to the bone, is well suited to clearing up the confusion between the two Sitting Bulls, confounded by legend and history; to telling of the hidden burial of Crazy Horse; and, to etching, in the ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $23.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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