Learn the history ofMari Sandoz, a celebrated writer of the American West. Mari Sandoz, a celebrated writer of the American West, gained widespread recognition with her 1935 publication of her novel ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A garden outside a center dedicated to famous author Mari Sandoz is designed to help tell her story, and enhance what she talked about in her books. “These are the plants that ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The former Chadron State College Carnegie-style library serves as a center dedicated to one of Nebraska’s famous authors. During a trip to Chadron, we stopped at the Mari Sandoz ...

Prairie grasses rustled in the light breeze as we pondered the life and struggles of an American writer. We were in remote Nebraska on our quest to visit formative places in the lives of frontier era ...

Mari Sandoz's struggles as a writer were a metaphor for the landscape of her origin, the Great Plains. A wind-whistled place, home to drought, blizzards, tornados, and plagues of grasshoppers, its ...

Quest for historical accuracy -- Political activism/social justice for the tribes -- Campaign against American Indian stereotypes -- The advocate : promotion of Native artists and writers -- Afterword ...

("I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965" by Kimberli A. Lee and John R. Wunder, Texas Tech University Press, 197 pages, $45).

CUSTER’S GOLD by Donald Jackson. 152 pages. Yale. $5. THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN by Mari Sandoz. 191 pages. Lippincott. $4.50. Lithe and handsome in fringed white buckskin, his golden mane ...

The life and accomplishments of Mari Sandoz will be showcased through March 5 in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center. Hours are Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. and ...

The life and places of Mari Sandoz will be celebrated during the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Sept. 23-24 at the Center for Great Plains Studies, 1155 Q St., on ...