Mari Sandoz Story Catcher Of The Plains

Author : Helen Winter Stauffer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803291639

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The Story Catcher by Mari Sandoz Pdf

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.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803291604

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The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz Pdf

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

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496240828

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Love Song to the Plains by Mari Sandoz Pdf

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 explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries. Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803251734

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Old Jules by Mari Sandoz Pdf

Recreates the life of a Swiss-born Nebraska homesteader, while reflecting on the character of the people who shaped the American nation

Author : Renée M. Laegreid,Shannon D. Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496216083

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Sandoz Studies, Volume 1 by Renée M. Laegreid,Shannon D. Smith Pdf

Mari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She experienced firsthand the difficulties and pleasures of the family's remote plains existence and early on developed a strong desire to write. Her keen eye for detail combined with meticulous research enabled her to become one of the most valued authorities of her time on the history of the plains and the culture of Native Americans. Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. When Sandoz wrote about the women she knew and studied, she did not shy away from drawing attention to the sacrifices, hardships, and disappointments they endured to forge a life in the harsh plains environment. But she also wrote about moments of joy, friendship, and--for some--a connection to the land that encouraged them to carry on. The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz contained in this book help place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Author : Renée M. Laegreid,Shannon D. Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496215956

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Sandoz Studies, Volume 1 by Renée M. Laegreid,Shannon D. Smith Pdf

Mari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She experienced firsthand the difficulties and pleasures of the family’s remote plains existence and early on developed a strong desire to write. Her keen eye for detail combined with meticulous research enabled her to become one of the most valued authorities of her time on the history of the plains and the culture of Native Americans. Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. When Sandoz wrote about the women she knew and studied, she did not shy away from drawing attention to the sacrifices, hardships, and disappointments they endured to forge a life in the harsh plains environment. But she also wrote about moments of joy, friendship, and—for some—a connection to the land that encouraged them to carry on. The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz contained in this book help place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Diane Dufva Quantic,P. Jane Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803238029

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A Great Plains Reader by Diane Dufva Quantic,P. Jane Hafen Pdf

The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and defined the region evoke the world of the American prairie from the first recorded days of Native history to the realities of life on a present-day reservation, from the arrival of European explorers to the experience of early settlers, from the splendor of the vast and rolling grasslands to the devastation of the Dust Bowl. Several essays look to the future and explore changes that would embolden the people of the Plains to continue to call home this place they have learned to value in spite of its persistent challenges. ø The infinite variety of the Great Plains landscape and its people unfolds in works by writers as diverse as Willa Cather, Loren Eiseley, Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), Langston Hughes, Wes Jackson, Garrison Keillor, William Least Heat-Moon, Kathleen Norris, Wright Morris, Francis Parkman, O. E. R”lvaag, Mari Sandoz, William Stafford, Mark Twain, Douglas Unger, James Welch (Blackfeet), and Canadians Sharon Butala and Sinclair Ross. From tribal histories to the impressions of travelers today, from tales of isolation and nature?s furious storms to accounts of efforts to build communities, from flights of fancy to nuanced observations of the ecology of the grasslands, this comprehensive volume provides a history of the intricate relationships of land and people in the Great Plains.

Author : Ramon Powers,James N. Leiker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Shirley A. Leckie,Nancy J. Parezo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Michael C. Steiner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780806189277

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Regionalists on the Left by Michael C. Steiner Pdf

“Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism,” Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Editor Michael C. Steiner has assembled a group of distinguished scholars who explore the lives and works of sixteen progressive western intellectuals, authors, and artists, ranging from nationally prominent figures such as John Steinbeck and Carey McWilliams to equally influential, though less well known, figures such as Angie Debo and Américo Paredes. Although they never constituted a unified movement complete with manifestos or specific goals, the thinkers and leaders examined in this volume raised voices of protest against racial, environmental, and working-class injustices during the Depression era that reverberate in the twenty-first century. Sharing a deep affection for their native and adopted places within the West, these individuals felt a strong sense of avoidable and remediable wrong done to the land and the people who lived upon it, motivating them to seek the root causes of social problems and demand change. Regionalists on the Left shows also that this radical regionalism in the West often took urban, working-class, and multicultural forms. Other books have dealt with western regionalism in general, but this volume is unique in its focus on left-leaning regionalists, including such lesser-known writers as B. A. Botkin, Carlos Bulosan, Sanora Babb, and Joe Jones. Tracing the relationship between politics and place across the West, Regionalists on the Left highlights a significant but neglected strain of western thought and expression.

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803258844

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The Beaver Men by Mari Sandoz Pdf

A history of the beaver trade in the Great Plains region ranges from its beginnings along the Saint Lawrence River to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers in 1834

Author : Helen Winter Stauffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:39076000521448

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Mari Sandoz by Helen Winter Stauffer Pdf