Mari Sandoz - (1896-1966)
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Campbell County High School, Gillette, Wyoming
I. Biography
Mari Sandoz was born on her father's homestead in western Nebraska. She participated in the settlement of one of the last "free" land areas of the continental United States. Sandoz's scars were not necessarily greater than others nor were they any less, yet she pulled them together and put them all down in writing. She was a natural storyteller with an intense desire to write.
When Mari was growing up she was in harsh conditions of the frontier in the isolation of the Sand Hills. That had a definite influence on all of her writings for all of her life. Sandoz is remembered as a regional
historian, biographer, novelist, teacher of creative writing, and an authority on the Plains Indians. She came to the point in her life where she was getting run down. She found out she had cancer and died on March 10, 1966. She was buried in Gordon, Nebraska.
II. Professional Life
Mari wrote many books, short stories and essays in her lifetime. Listed below are most of Mari Sandoz's published books. Most all of her writings were influenced by the time era of where she lived.
III. Literary Works
The Battle of Little Big Horn
The Buffalos Hunters
The Cattlemen
The Christmas of the Phonograph
The Horsecatcher
Love Songs To The Plains
Old Jules
Ossie And The Sea Monster
Solgum House
The Story Catcher
The Tom Walker
The Beaver Men
Capital City
Cheyenne Autumn
The Cottonwood Chest And Other Stories
Foal Of Heaven
The Great Council
Hostiles And Friendlies
Miss Morissa
Old Jules Country
Sandhill Sundays And Other Recollections
Son Of The Gamblin' Man
These Were The Sioux
Winter Thunder
IV. Works Cited
Mari Sandoz. Gordon Library. 22 Feb. 2000.
Sandhills Publishing, Gordon, Nebraska. 22 February 2000.
This essay was submitted by students of Nathel Coca, a teacher at Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming.