Mari Sandoz was een vooraanstaande auteur uit Nebraska, wiens geschriften met uitzonderlijke details en historische nauwkeurigheid ingaan op het leven in het Amerikaanse Westen. Haar proza kenmerkt zich door rauwe eerlijkheid en een diepgaand begrip van de ervaringen van pioniers en de Plains-indianen. Sandoz belicht de ruige realiteit en de stille veerkracht van degenen die de Amerikaanse grens vormden, waarbij ze hun innerlijke gedachten en motivaties verkent. Haar literaire nalatenschap ligt in haar levendige portretten van het verleden en haar standvastige inzet om een stem te geven aan degenen die vaak over het hoofd worden gezien.
Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose social non-conformity contributed to his reputation as being strange, fought in many famous battles, and held out tirelessly against the US government's efforts to confine the Lakotas to reservations. This book offers an evocation of the spirit of Crazy Horse.
In 1867, conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans- Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. This title focuses on the destruction of the great herds.
"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.
An account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life - and lost - that reveals on every page the author's intimate knowledge of her subject.
By zealous research, keen observation, and wide-ranging and deeply probing commentary, Mari Sandoz has become one of the most famous and well-respected interpreters of the American West. Old Jules Country is made up of the region thatøSandoz has written about most frequently?the High Plains of the Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming?the Black Hills, the Bad Lands, the sandhills, and the great rivers: the Missouri, the Platte, and the Yellowstone. Here are selections from the six volumes of her acclaimed Great Plains Series The Beaver Men, Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn, The Buffalo Hunters, The Cattlemen, and Old Jules and from her study of a great people, These Were the Sioux. Also included are two essays, "The Lost Sitting Bull" and "The Homestead in Perspective." A Cheyenne prayer and two sketches unavailable elsewhere?"Snakes" and "Coyotes and Eagles"?complete the collection. This anthology provides a stimulating sampling for readers not yet acquainted with Sandoz's work. For her extensive following, it offers the opportunity for a satisfying reappraisal of her overall achievement.
The Strange Man of the Oglala
<i>Crazy Horse</i>, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to confine the Sioux on reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, one of the last important chiefs to do so, only to meet a violent death. 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.
