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(0)Mari Sandoz
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Language
English
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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 Monthly
Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government's
...3) Old Jules
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Biography of the author's father, recounting stories she heard of pioneer life while hiding behind the stove or wood box, and tales told to her by Old Jules himself, and providing a portrait of the upper Niobrara country in western Nebraska during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Series
Publisher
Hastings House Publishers
Pub. Date
1964
Language
English
Description
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 of the American West in relation to an animal species.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press/Bison
Pub. Date
[1978, c1958]
Language
English
Description
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 to animal species.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Presents ten autobiographical pieces by twentieth-century regional historian, biographer, novelist, and teacher Mari Sandoz on the pioneer days in the Sandhills of northwestern Nebraska and includes excerpts about homesteaders and Indians and family, friends, and neighbors.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Winter thunder
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1986, c1954
Language
English
Description
When a school bus overturns in a blinding blizzard, a young teacher and her pupils are stranded miles from anywhere for eight days.
12) Capital City
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press/[Bison Books]
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
14) The Tom-walker
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1984, c1947]
Language
English
16) Cheyenne autumn
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1992, c1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English