Sandoz Studies, Volume 3

Renée M. Laegreid is Andrew Allen Excellence Fellow in Western History and a professor of history at the University of Wyoming. She is a coeditor of Sandoz Studies, Volume 2: Sandoz and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Nebraska, 2024), bronze winner of the 2025 Will Rogers Medallion for Western nonfiction.

"This timely, creative, and compelling collection of essays reclaims Mari Sandoz's often-forgotten insights on authoritarianism. She—and they—have much to teach us."—Michael J. Lansing, coeditor of Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West"Mari Sandoz's depiction of tyrannical rule in Slogum House has captivated readers since its publication in 1937. The gracefully executed essays in this volume explain why Slogum House remains a useful way to understand U.S. history nearly a century later."—Benjamin H. Johnson, author of Texas: An American History"Through this vibrant collection, we come to know Mari Sandoz's Slogum House as a prescient novel, flashing forward as a warning and an analysis of the settler-colonial roots of American fascism. This brutal novel reveals much about the fascistic violence undergirding the 'American Dream,' not only 'how we got here,' but how we were here all along."—Julie Carr, author of Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: So Glum a HousePeter Boag1. Mari Sandoz's Slogum House: Greed as WomanGlenda Riley2. Sandoz, Webb, and the Environment as Actor in Slogum HouseAndrew R. Graybill3. Lessons in the Land: Slogum House and the Allegories of Settler ColonialismMatt Evertson4. No Place for Pets: The Animals of Slogum HouseJessica Greer5. Slogum House and Buying Sex in the American WestNikki Berg Burin6. "It's No Particular Honor to Be Banned in Omaha, and No Reflection Either": Mari Sandoz, Obscenity, and Banning Slogum HouseNathan TyeContributorsBibliographyIndex