Letters Of Mari Sandoz

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0803242069

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Letters of Mari Sandoz by Mari Sandoz Pdf

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 by others for her vivid detail and depth of feeling, Sandoz has achieved a secure place in American literature. Her letters, edited by Helen Winter Stauffer, reveal extraordinary courage and zest for life. Included here are letters written by Sandoz over nearly forty years?from 1928, the year of her father's death and a critical one for her creative development, to 1966, the year of her own death. They allow memorable flimpses of the professional and private person: her struggles to learn her craft in spite of an unsupportive family and hard-won formal education, her experiences in gathering material, her relationships with editors and publishers, her work with fledgling writers, and her commitment to art and to various social concerns.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : LCCN:92224505

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Gordon Journal Letters of Mari Sandoz by Mari Sandoz Pdf

Author : LaVerne Harrell Clark
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0738507849

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Mari Sandoz's Native Nebraska by LaVerne Harrell Clark Pdf

When the Mari Sandoz High Plains Center opens in Chadron, Nebraska in 2001, it will be one of three centers at which Nebraska honors its outstanding writers. Through the compilation of over 200 images in this new book, taken from historical collections and her own work, author and photographer LaVerne Harrell Clark contributes to that same purpose. In it, she recreates the frontier life of settlers and the neighboring Sioux and Cheyenne Indians of the sandhills region of northwestern Nebraska. Accompanied by in-depth captions detailing Mari Sandoz's life and works, these images illustrate how she came to hold an outstanding place as an American writer until her death in 1966. Born in 1896, in the "free-land" region of the Nebraska Panhandle, Sandoz was greatly influenced in her writing by the people who called at her homestead. Her acquaintances included Bad Arm, a Sioux Indian who fought at the Little Bighorn and was present at Wounded Knee, "Old Cheyenne Woman," a survivor of both the Oklahoma and Fort Robinson conflicts, and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the legend of the Old West.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0896726665

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"I Do Not Apologize for the Length of this Letter" by Mari Sandoz Pdf

"The collected correspondence of Mari Sandoz focusing on her political activism in behalf of American Indians in the mid-twentieth century. Introduced and edited by Kimberli Lee, the letters document Sandoz's role as a non-Native chronicler and advocate for Plains Indian cultures"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Helen Winter Stauffer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803291345

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Mari Sandoz, Story Catcher of the Plains by Helen Winter Stauffer Pdf

As a historian and as a novelist Mari Sandoz (1896?1966) stands in the front rank of western writers: in the words of John K. Hutchens, "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." This first full-length biography is particularly concerned to show the relationship between Sandoz's life and experiences and her writing. Drawing heavily on materials in the Mari Sandoz Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln?correspondence to and from Sandoz, her research notes, and manuscripts?and on interviews with dozens of Sandoz's friends and acquaintances, the author not only establishes the facts of Sandoz's life but confirms her standing as a writer and historian.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UVA:X000663792

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Old Jules by Mari Sandoz Pdf

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : LCCN:55004571

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Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz Pdf

Life story of the Oglala Sioux chieftain from boyhood to his death in 1877.

Author : Dorothee E. Kocks
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0520222806

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Dream a Little by Dorothee E. Kocks Pdf

Writing with a novelist's sensitivity toward language, Kocks explores the idea that Americans have historically looked to the land for answers to society's problems. To illustrate this point, she shows that the frontier state with its homestead program was actually the predecessor of the modern welfare state. Instead of money, the federal government gave away land. Kocks shows how we have "forgotten" the politics and history behind this giveaway and unravels the significance of this forgetting for our national consciousness.

Author : Ramon Powers,James N. Leiker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185903

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The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory by Ramon Powers,James N. Leiker Pdf

The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The Cheyennes, in turn, suffered losses through violent encounters with the U.S. Army. More than a century later, the story remains familiar because it has been told by historians and novelists, and on film. In The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers explore how the event has been remembered, told, and retold. They examine the recollections of Indians and settlers and their descendants, and they consider local history, mass-media treatments, and literature to draw thought-provoking conclusions about how this story has changed over time. The Cheyennes’ journey has always been recounted in melodramatic stereotypes, and for the last fifty years most versions have featured “noble savages” trying to reclaim their birthright. Here, Leiker and Powers deconstruct those stereotypes and transcend them, pointing out that history is never so simple. “The Cheyennes’ flight,” they write, “had left white and Indian bones alike scattered along its route from Oklahoma to Montana.” In this view, the descendants of the Cheyennes and the settlers they encountered are all westerners who need history as a “way of explaining the bones and arrowheads” that littered the plains. Leiker and Powers depict a rural West whose diverse peoples—Euro-American and Native American alike—seek to preserve their heritage through memory and history. Anyone who lives in the contemporary Great Plains or who wants to understand the West as a whole will find this book compelling.

Author : Joseph Hogan,Jon Lauck,Paul Murphy,Andrew Seal,Gleaves Whitney
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870209499

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The Sower and the Seer by Joseph Hogan,Jon Lauck,Paul Murphy,Andrew Seal,Gleaves Whitney Pdf

This collection of twenty-two essays, a product of recent revivals of interest in both Midwestern history and intellectual history, argues for the contributions of interior thinkers and ideas in forming an American identity. The Midwest has been characterized as a fertile seedbed for the germination of great thinkers, but a wasteland for their further growth. The Sower and the Seer reveals that representation to be false. In fact, the region has sustained many innovative minds and been the locus of extraordinary intellectualism. It has also been the site of shifting interpretations—to some a frontier, to others a colonized space, a breadbasket, a crossroads, a heartland. As agrarian reformed (and Michigander) Liberty Hyde Bailey expressed in his 1916 poem “Sower and Seer,” the Midwestern landscape has given rise to significant visionaries, just as their knowledge has nourished and shaped the region. The essays gathered for this collection examine individual thinkers, writers, and leaders, as well as movements and ideas that shaped the Midwest, including rural school consolidation, women’s literary societies, Progressive-era urban planning, and Midwestern radical liberalism. While disparate in subject and style, these essays taken together establish the irrefutable significance of the intellectual history of the American Midwest.

Author : Gioia Woods
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781943859948

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Left in the West by Gioia Woods Pdf

In this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural Left in the American West—as it is distinct from the more often-theorized literary left in major eastern metropolitan centers. Left in the West expands our understanding of what constitutes the literary left in the U.S. by including writers, artists, and movements not typically considered within the traditional context of the literary left. In doing so, it provides a new understanding of the region’s place among global and political ideologies. From the early 19th century to the present, a remarkably complex and varied body of literary and cultural production has emerged out of progressive social movements. While the literary left in the West shared many interests with other regional expressions—labor, class, anti-fascism, and anti-imperialism, the influence of Manifest Destiny—the distinct history of settler colonialism in western territories caused western leftists to develop concerns unique to the region. Chapters in the volume provide an impressive range of analysis, covering artists and movements from suffragist writers to bohemian Californian photographers, from civil rights activists to popular folk musicians, from Latinx memoirists to Native American experimental writers, to name just a few. The unique consideration of the West as a socio-political region establishes a framework for political critique that moves beyond class consequences, anti-fascism, and civil liberties, and into distinct Western concerns such as Native American sovereignty, environmental exploitation, and the legacies of settler colonialism. What emerges is a deeper understanding of the region and its unique people, places, and concerns.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Heritage of the Great Plains by Anonim Pdf

Contains articles on the literature, language, folklore, history, art, and music of the Great Plains.

Author : Ron Hull
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780803244535

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Backstage by Ron Hull Pdf

Born in 1930 in “Diddlin’ Dora’s” establishment on the banks of Rapid Creek and carried by the Madam herself to a social worker at the Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, Ron Hull was destined from the outset to live an interesting life. And interesting it has indeed been, at the very least. A well-known and much-loved figure after six decades in television, Hull sets out in Backstage to tell his story—from playing a bellhop in a junior class play in South Dakota (and meeting his “real” mother backstage) to initiating the American Experience series for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Before he even owned a television set, Hull produced a military TV show at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. But it wasn’t until he got a job in public broadcasting in Lincoln, Nebraska, that he truly found his medium. Hull has a lifetime of fascinating anecdotes to tell: working as a producer and director, encountering celebrities like John Wayne and William Shatner, befriending famous Nebraskans like writers Mari Sandoz and John Neihardt and actress Sandy Dennis, moving to Saigon in 1966 to bring television to embattled Vietnam, and working in Washington as director of the program fund for the CPB. Through it all, though, Hull’s story is a tribute to his adopted Nebraska, a celebration of the people—stars and unsung heroes—he’s known, and a moving memoir of the dramas of life, large and small.

Author : Shirley A. Leckie,Nancy J. Parezo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803229585

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Their Own Frontier by Shirley A. Leckie,Nancy J. Parezo Pdf

Biographers describe the struggles and contributions of female scholars researching Indians of the American West in the early 1900s.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1961-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803291515

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These Were the Sioux by Mari Sandoz Pdf

"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 surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle.