Mari Sandoz
1) Old Jules
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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 hunts,” Sandoz recalls. “Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to ‘marry anything
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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.
