Mari Sandoz Summary

The noted Western historian, novelist, and teacher Mari Sandoz was born Marie Susette Sandoz, the oldest child of Jules and Mary Fehr Sandoz, Swiss immigrants and homesteaders in the Niobrara River re... Read more

Critical Essay by William Allen White [Old Jules] is the story of a pioneer in the high plains of the trans-Missouri country—western Nebraska. To understand Old Jules thoroughly and to get the... Read more

Critical Essay by W. R. Burnett Mari Sandoz has written one good book after another, including "Old Jules," "Cheyenne Autumn" and "Buffalo Hunters." These ar... Read more

Critical Essay by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. There is really nothing new in [Mari Sandoz's telling of "The Battle of the Little Bighorn"], save the quality of the telling itself, and ... Read more

Critical Essay by Helen Winter Stauffer Mari Sandoz is recognized as a novelist, historian, and biographer, as well as an authority on the Indians of the Great Plains. Her work varies in quality, her... Read more

Critical Essay by Rose C. Feld ["Slogum House"] is a book that none but Mari Sandoz could have written. No other woman would have dared attempt such a background and such a story and no... Read more

Critical Essay by Clifton Fadiman The design on the jacket of Mari Sandoz's novel, "Capital City," suggests a bursting bomb. While the book's materials are potentially exp... Read more

Critical Essay by Clifton Fadiman [Mari Sandoz] has been carrying on a fervent historico-literary affair with a dead Indian, the consequence of which is a curious, half-interesting, uneven book calle... Read more

Critical Essay by J. Frank Dobie Let no one regard "Cheyenne Autumn" as one of those customary attempts by historians to rescue an episode or a figure from oblivion. The episode did not... Read more