Books written by Mari Sandoz

  • The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire
    The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire

    Quick work with the knife bled out the poison and left the man with nothing worse than a sore foot and a whisky head the next day . Those out hunting or manning the tow rope had seen much ancient beaver sign all the way up the 202 THE ...

  • Capital City
    Capital City

    The stories of Cassie's house party were scarcely cold around town , particularly the one about Harold Welles ... they found had nothing of the clean sharp tang of burning grass , but the damp , heavy stench of smoldering city dumps .

  • The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias
    The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias

    ... with perhaps a little get - together for some calf roping and bronc - riding - particularly outlaws and wild stuff that had never felt the rope and spur . ... who fell in love with the bronc riding of William and married him .

  • Beaver Men

    Beaver Men

  • Old Jules
    Old Jules

    Jules did pull through , but not without a great deal of agony to himself and to this doctor who could never learn proper impersonality toward his patients . The first few nights it took two men to hold Jules when he tried to fling ...

  • These Were the Sioux
    These Were the Sioux

    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.

  • Cheyenne Autumn
    Cheyenne Autumn

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

  • The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
    The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men

    By the end of the 1880s that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of this book.

  • Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings
    Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings

    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;...

  • The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
    The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men

    "In 1867 the plains were black with thunderous millions of buffaloes. By 1883 only a few hundred were left. Mis Sandoz has painted a brilliant cyclorama of this great change....

  • Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas : a Biography
    Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas : a Biography

    Mari Sandoz, the noted author of Cheyenne Autumn and Old Jules, both available as Bison Books, has captured the spirit of Crazy Horse with a strength and nobility befitting his heroism.

  • Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
    Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas

    Glossary In Crazy Horse Mari Sandoz uses only the English version of Indian names and only a few Lakota terms . When a Lakota name is known from historical sources , it is provided in the following format : the An- glicized form of the ...

  • The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
    The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men

    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.

  • Old Jules Country: A Selection from Old Jules and Thirty Years of Writing Since the Book was Published
    Old Jules Country: A Selection from Old Jules and Thirty Years of Writing Since the Book was Published

    helpers could not make the cows they drove walk fast , and Milton Sublette was in a hurry to get his goods to the ... The two Lees were the first emigrants to stop at the post Bill Sublette's men were building as a trading house on a ...

  • The Battle of the Little Bighorn
    The Battle of the Little Bighorn

    Recounts the battle between the U.S. 7th Cavalry and an army of Sioux Indians, led by Sitting Bull, which left no survivors among the soldiers under Custer's command

  • The Horsecatcher
    The Horsecatcher

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

  • Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist : a Novel
    Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist : a Novel

    Based on the lives of John J. Cozad and Robert Henri.

  • Old Jules
    Old Jules

    The book grew out of a childhood and adolescence spent among the story-tellers of the frontier, for the frontier, whether story-tellers, and in this respect remains frontier in nature until the last original settler is gone.

  • Old Jules
    Old Jules

    ... Jules not guilty . " Well , I'm glad you came out all right , Jule , " Johnny Burrows told him . " Come out all right ? I had to mortgage my place , prob- ably lose it , to defend myself . " " Yeh , I guess you and the bank did 136 OLD ...

  • The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection
    The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection

    Even old enmities dissolved under the spell, for, as Old Jules said, “The music is for everybody.” A classic in the tradition of Dylan Thomas’s Child’s Christmas in Wales and Truman Capote’s Christmas Memory, this story by the ...