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These Were the Sioux
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1985
134 kr
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"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 …
Crazy Horse
The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 2008
282 kr
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“[One] of the great stories of the West, and written . . . in the spirit of the sages, with a scrupulous regard for truth and history.”-Atlantic MonthlyCrazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being …
Buffalo Hunters
The Story of the Hide Men
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 2008
254 kr
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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 …
Beaver Men
Spearheads of Empire
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 2010
254 kr
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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 Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoz’s trilogy of books narrating the history …
Cattlemen
From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 2010
254 kr
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The Cattlemen is 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 contemporary times. It is the second in Sandoz’s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation …
Letters of Mari Sandoz
Av Mari Sandoz, Helen Winter Stauffer
Inbunden, 1992
982 kr
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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 …
Love Song to the Plains
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1966
343 kr
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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, indomitable, foolish-their legends, failures, and achievements: of …
Son of the Gamblin' Man
The Youth of an Artist
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1976
220 kr
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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 …
Capital City
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 2007
251 kr
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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 ofPlenty-Capital City …
Miss Morissa
Doctor of the Gold Trail
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1980
203 kr
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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, …
Slogum House
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1981
251 kr
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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 …
Old Jules Country
A Selection from "Old Jules" and Thirty Years of Writing After the Book Was Published
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1983
316 kr
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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 …
Tom-Walker
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1984
334 kr
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A bold, biting novel by the author of Old Jules and Crazy Horse, 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 …
Sandhill Sundays and Other Recollections
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1984
186 kr
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"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 …
Horsecatcher
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1986
186 kr
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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 tribe in the 1830s, she creates a youthful protagonist many readers will recognize in themselves. Young Elk is expected to …
Winter Thunder
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1986
138 kr
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Winter Thunder has been named by the Reader’s Digest as one of the ten best American short novels.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 and miles from the nearest ranchhouse. Thus Mari …
Story Catcher
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1986
163 kr
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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 …
Hostiles and Friendlies
Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1959
285 kr
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"A book that will delight Miss Sandoz''s wide and admiring audience."--K. Ross Toole, "History News". 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 …
Christmas of the Phonograph Records
A Recollection
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 1996
137 kr
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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 …
Old Jules
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 2005
233 kr
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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 …
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Av Mari Sandoz
Häftad, 2022
284 kr
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Mari Sandoz’s beautifully written account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life-and lost it-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 …
Crazy Horse, Third Edition
The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Av Mari Sandoz
Ljudbok, 2022
364 kr
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Crazy Horse was the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being “strange.” Crazy Horse fought in many battles, including the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the US …
Cheyenne Autumn
Av Mari Sandoz
Ljudbok, 2022
343 kr
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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. Acclaimed author Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight.
Old Jules
Av Mari Sandoz
Ljudbok, 2022
335 kr
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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 …
