Sandoz reached back to the days of the traders and Indians, traced the destruction of the buffalo herds and of the society they supported, highlighted the native side of the government's attempt to settle the "Indian question," explored cattlemen and granger issues, and criticized the effects of war on soldiers and society. Sandoz was a meticulous researcher who was seldom satisfied with her many revisions. Her work is also marked by the perspective she developed as a child. Living where conflict over land was a constant between ranchers and settlers, she saw life as a never-ending fight against discrimination and injustice.
Marie Susette Sandoz was born on the high plateau of the Niobara River region of northwest Nebraska on 11 May 1896, the first of six children of Swiss immigrants Jules Ami and Mary Fehr Sandoz. She grew up in the Nebraska panhandle during the years when the area was being settled by hungry land-seekers. At fourteen she moved with her family twenty-five miles southeast of the Niobrara into the sandhills, an area still known today for its isolation, mysterious beauty, and, to the untrained eye, unvarying landscape.
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