Mari Sandoz Collection
Title: Mari Sandoz
Collection
Creator: Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966
Dates: 1864-1976
(bulk 1931-1966)
Quantity: 199 boxes (186 linear feet)
Collection Number: MS 0080
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Other Finding Aids: For a complete list of Sandoz materials available via microfilm, please
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the microfilm indexing.Container List:
Box 9. Correspondence 1950, Jan.-1951, Jan. [Microfilm Reel MS00017]Item Charles Brill to Mari Sandoz, 1949, Jan. 2 (1950) [frame 17.7]Misdated as 1949 instead of 1950. Regarding Yellow Swallow purported to be Custer's
son by a Cheyenne woman; syphilis among Custer's men.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charles Brill, 1950, Jan. 4 [frame 17.12]Regarding Yellow Swallow; censorship in military records; Sandoz's Cheyenne book; in
the works.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, 1950, Jan. 4 [frame 17.13-14]Regarding work on the Cheyenne book; trip to Washington to get the Cheyenne
appropriations reinstated (never sent).
Item M. Van den Bark to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Jan. 10 [frame 17.18-20]Regarding Fort Sill, Oklahoma; summer teaching position at Wisconsin; new novels;
recent art exhibits.
Item "Boss" Van Vleet to Man Sandoz, 1950, Jan. 11 [frame 17.21]]Regarding theatre in Scottsdale, Arizona; Flair
Magazine; the play "Harvey."
Item E.S. Luce to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Jan. 12 [frame 17.24]Regarding Sandoz's recent visit to Custer Battlefield; photos; Florida; Ponce de
Leon.
Item Mari Sandoz to Desmond Hall, 1950, Jan. 13 [frame 17.27]Regarding middle chapters of Cheyenne Autumn .
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Jan. 17 [frame 17.34]Major Wilhelm information; War College at Washington; American military matters of
1874-1878; Indian photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to M. Van den Bark, 1950, Jan. 17 [frame 17.36-39]Regarding Washita battle; Custer; Monaseetah; Chivington; Monaseetah's second
"husband" named "Isaac;" position in Wisconsin; Wilbur Gaffney; Tompkinses of El Reno,
Oklahoma; new novels; Sandoz's commentary on other recently published books; writing
songs; Indian songs recordings.
Item Savoie Lottinville, University of Oklahoma Press to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Jan. 18 [frame 17.40]Regarding manuscript on the Sioux by George Hyde; request for Sandoz to look over
this manuscript, A Sioux Chronicle.
Item Mari Sandoz to Savoie Lottinville, University of Oklahoma Press, 1950, Jan. 20 [frame 17.45]Regarding Hyde's manuscript.
Item Thomas Bledsoe to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Jan. 21 [frame 17.46]Regarding working in Mexico; lecture series to include Sandoz and her work.
Item Paul E. Sandoz to Andre Sandoz, 1950, Jan. 24 [frame 17.50]Regarding Sandoz family history.
Item Mari Sandoz to Andre Sandoz, 1950, Jan. 28 [frame 17.55-56]Regarding Sandoz family and relatives; Old Jules; family
history; "branches of the family."
Item Mari Sandoz to Association on American Indian Affairs, 1950, Jan. 31 [frame 17.63]Regarding Sandoz's interceding on behalf of the Northern Cheyennes; Congress of 1947
and cuts in appropriations for Northern Cheyennes.
Item List, undated [frame 17.64]List of members of Congress who serve on Subcommittee on Indian Affairs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Margaret Marshall, 1950, Jan. 31 [frame 17.65]Regarding help for the Northern Cheyennes.
Item Mari Sandoz to Representative Wesley A. D'Ewart, 1950, Feb. 4 [frame 17.70-72]Regarding Northern Cheyenne's situation; Sandoz pleads for financial help for the
Cheyennes; Sandoz explains the problems they are facing.
Item Mari Sandoz to J.G. Hunter, Superintendent, Tongue River Agency, 1950, Feb. 4 [frame 17.73]Regarding getting help for the Northern Cheyennes.
Item Series of letters to various political representatives, 1950, Feb.4 [frame 17.74-81]Regarding economic help for the Northern Cheyennes.
Item Senator James E. Murray to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Feb. 9 [frame 17.87]Regarding situation of the Northern Cheyennes.
Item Representative Mike Mansfield to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Feb. 10 [frame 17.88]Regarding situation of Northern Cheyennes.
Item Senator Zales Ecton to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Feb. 13 [frame 17.91-94]Regarding Northern Cheyennes. Curriculum vitae of Renee B. Lang, Ph.D. attached.
Item Page from Newsweek, 1950, Feb. 13 [frame 17.95]Regarding horses as literary material; authors Walter Farley; Marguerite Henry and
Thomas Hinkle.
Item Representative Wesley A. D'Ewart to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Feb. 14 [frame 17.96]Regarding situation of the Northern Cheyenne at Tongue River Agency; regrets.
Item Notes, 1950, Feb. 17 [frame 17.98-99]concerning George E. Hyde's A Sioux Chronicle.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. H.R. Nix, 1950, Feb. 18 [frame 17.103]Regarding Sandoz's travels to Oklahoma in search of material for the Cheyenne book;
family in the Sandhills Old Jules; Crazy Horse as part of a trans-Missouri study.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Lottinville, 1950, Feb. 19 [frame 17.105-107]Regarding Hyde manuscript; attached to letter are notes on Hyde's A Sioux Chronicle.
Item Toby Morris, Chairman, Subcommittee on Indian Affairs to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, Feb. 21 [frame 17.109]Regarding Northern Cheyenne situation at Tongue River Reservation; surplus potatoes
and dried milk.
Item Mari Sandoz to Wilbert B. Harvey, Birney Day School, 1950, Feb. 25 [frame 17.115]Regarding Sandoz in Washington, D.C. to see if she can solicit help for Northern
Cheyenne.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dorothy and Dick hosts of a New York City Radio
Show, 1950, Feb. 28 [frame 17.118]Regarding census taking in the United States.
Item Wallace Stegner to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 9 [frame 17.125]Regarding Sandoz as a panelist for a short story prize contest at Stanford.
Item Wilbert B. Harvey, Birney Day School to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 15 [frame 17.126-135, 136-138 typed copy]Regarding conditions at Birney Day School; Northern Cheyenne education; death of John
Sandcrane.
Item Alexander Lesser, Executive Director, Association on American Indian Affairs
to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 15 [frame 17.139]Regarding situation of the Indians on Western reservations; relief funding for
Indians in need; stop-gap measures will not solve long range problems on the
reservations.
Item Mari Sandoz to Alexander Lesser, 1950, Mar. 17 [frame 17.141]Response to Lesser's letter of March 15, 1950.
Item Harold Mantell, Secretary of National Film Committee to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 20 [frame 17.147]Regarding campaign against stereotyping Indians in film.
Item James C. Olson, Superintendent, NSHS to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 21 [frame 17.150]Regarding revitalizing museum displays; Crazy Horse.
Item Mari Sandoz to Desmond Hall, 1950, Mar. 22 [frame 17.153]Regarding movie script involving the Cheyennes; Sandoz feels that Columbia pictures
should hire a consultant for historical accuracy.
Item Carl L. Pearson, Superintendent, Northern Cheyenne Agency to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 23 [frame 17.155]Regarding Sandoz's request for information.
Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 24 [frame 17.161-162]Regarding criticism of the middle chapters of the Cheyenne book; Weeks and Charlie
Morton; feel lost as they read this.
Item Marl Sandoz to Ed Weeks and Charlie Morton, Atlantic
Monthly, 1950, Mar. 26 [frame 17.167]Regarding Cheyenne manuscript; Sandoz plans on sending it on to Desmond Hall; why the
manuscript was delayed.
Item Dudley Cloud, Atlantic Monthly to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 27 [frame 17.168]Regarding plates to Old Jules; Old
Jules not to be reprinted.
Item Mari Sandoz to Edward Sandcrane, 1950, Mar. 27 [frame 17.170]Regarding Cheyenne artists and art; Little Finger Nail; Cheyenne outbreak at Fort
Robinson, 1879; Sandoz's next visit to the Tongue River reservation.
Item Mari Sandoz to Desmond Hall, 1950, Mar. 29 [frame 17.175]Regarding Sandoz decides to call her Cheyenne book Cheyenne
Autumn; finishing up with this manuscript; Sandoz to be featured in Flair magazine; the Sea Monster story.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charlie Morton, 1950, Mar. 29 [frame 17.176]Regarding Howard Fast's The Last Frontier; Sandoz to
submit the "last half" of Cheyenne Autumn manuscript.
Item James C. Olson, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Mar. 30 [frame 17.180]Regarding Sandoz's Crazy Horse on display; a scalp
shirt.
Item Wallace Stegner to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 3 [frame 17.184]Regarding Sandoz as a short story contest judge.
Item Thomas Bledsoe to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 4 [frame 17.185-190]Regarding Bledsoe to be publishing in Mexico; working with translators in Mexico.
Attached to letter is Tiempo magazine article on
Bledso.
Item "Boss" Van Vleet to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 4 [frame 17.191]Regarding Van Vleet ranch to be featured in Flair
magazine; news of the Van Vleet family's experiences in Arizona and Mexico.
Item Mari Sandoz to Orin Stepanek, 1950, Apr. 5 [frame 17.192]Regarding Sandoz's material about Crazy Horse; Sandoz in
Flair; Sandoz's teaching summers at Wisconsin.
Item Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 5 [frame 17.193]Stepanek response to previous letter. Regarding Stepanek proposes Sandoz receive an
honorary Doctorate of Literature in English Department at University of Nebraska,
Lincoln; requests material of Sandoz's as "ammunition" for the
"fight" so the degree can be conferred upon her.
Item Harry E. Maule, Random House to J. Chambrun, 1950, Apr. 6 [frame 17.195]Regarding Random House turns down Foal of Heaven for
publication.
Item Harold Mantell, National Film Committee to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 7 [frame 17.196]Regarding Sandoz's participation with National Film Committee.
Item Mari Sandoz to "Boss" Van Vleet, 1950, Apr. 8 [frame 17.197]Regarding Flair magazine article; Marguerite Young.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charlie Morton, 1950, Apr. 9 [frame 17.200]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; final rewrite; Flair magazine article.
Item Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 13 [frame 17.211]Regarding minutes of the University Senate Meeting; Sandoz proposed for Doctorate of
Literature Honorary Degree.
Item Copy of a note from Rufus Wallowing, 1950, Apr. 13 [frame 17.212-215]Regarding state of affairs in the Northern Cheyenne country; tribal problems with
governmental appointed supervisors; Mr. Naddy and Mr. Beeler; proposed projects of
Tongue River Reservation.
Item R.G. Gustavson, University of Nebraska Chancellorto Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 15 [frame 17.217]Regarding Sandoz to receive honorary degree.
Item Mari Sandoz to Alexander Lesser, Association on American Indian
Affairs, 1950, Apr. 15 [frame 17.218]Regarding Rufus Wallowing's letter of April 13, 1950; State of Affairs on the Tongue
River Reservation of the Northern Cheyenne; The Nation
magazine; bribes to tribal council members; big oil companies on the reservation;
future for the Northern Cheyennes; getting publicity for the problems at Tongue River
Agency.
Item Mari Sandoz to Margaret Marshall, The
Nation, 1950, Apr. 15 [frame 17.219]Regarding situation at Northern Cheyenne Reservation; Rufus Wallowing's letter to
Sandoz.
Item Mari Sandoz to Rufus Wallowing, Northern Cheyenne Tribal
President, 1950, Apr. 15 [frame 17.220]Regarding situation of the Northern Cheyennes in Montana; contacts in Washington;
getting publicity for problems on the reservation.
Item Marvin F. Kivett, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 17 [frame 17.221]Regarding a scalp shirt said to belong to Crazy Horse.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dudley Cloud, Atlantic
Monthly, 1950, Apr. 17 [frame 17.222]Regarding Old Jules printing plates.
Item Rufus Wallowing to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 17 [frame 17.225-226]Regarding Wallowing's trip to Washington, D.C.; problems on the Northern Cheyenne
Reservation death of "Old Man" Sandcrane; Sacred Hat of the Cheyennes.
Item Warren Bower to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 18 [frame 17.229-230]Sandoz's book list for her creative writing course at Wisconsin.
Item Mari Sandoz to R.G. Gustavson, University of Nebraska Chancellor, 1950, Apr. 18 [frame 17.231]Regarding Sandoz to attend commencement; receive honorary degree.
Item Mari Sandoz to Marvin Kivett, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1950, Apr. 19 [frame 17.232]Regarding the Crazy Horse scalp shirt; Sandoz gives her recollections about the
shirt.
Item Mari Sandoz to "Boss" Van Vleet, 1950, Apr. 19 [frame 17.233-234]Regarding Marguerite Young; scarcity of bookstores in the west; Sandoz's summer
plans.
Item Mari Sandoz to Orin Stepanek, 1950, Apr. 24 [frame 17.248]Regarding the honorary Doctorate for Sandoz; Stepanek's poetry; church martyrs in
Europe.
Item Mari Sandoz to Photographic Records Office, National Archives, 1950, Apr. 25 [frame 17.249]Regarding Cheyenne photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to James Olson, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1950, Apr. 25 [frame 17.251]Regarding photographs of Dull Knife and Little Wolf, Cheyennes.
Item Mari Sandoz to American Museum of Natural History, 1950, Apr. 26 [frame 17.252]Regarding Huffman photograph collection; photos of Cheyenne Indians.
Item Dudley Cloud, Atlantic Monthly to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 28 [frame 17.254]Regarding printing plates of Old Jules.
Item Mari Sandoz to Wallace Stegner, 1950, Apr. 30 [frame 17.257, 260]Regarding Sandoz's judging results for the short story contest.
Item Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Apr. 30 [frame 17.258-259]Regarding the honorary Doctorate for Mari Sandoz.
Item Wilbert Harvey, Birney Day School to Mari Sandoz, 1950, May 1 [frame 17.262-263]Regarding events at Birney Day School on Northern Cheyenne Reservation; Edward
Sandcrane and his art; Maria of San Ildefonso; future of
the Birney Day School.
Item Marguerite Phillips, American Museum of Natural History to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, May 1 [frame 17.264]Regarding Huffman photographic collection.
Item Mari Sandoz to Louise Pound, 1950, May 1 [frame 17.265]Regarding Lincoln salt basin.
Item Mari Sandoz to Montana State Historical Society, 1950, May 2 [frame 17.269]Regarding Huffman photographic collection; Cheyenne photographs.
Item Ann McDonnell, Montana State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1950, May 6 [frame 17.274]Regarding Huffman photographic collection; photographs of Dull Knife and Little
Wolf.
Item Anne Harris, National Archives, Washington, D.C. to Mari Sandoz, 1950, May 8 [frame 17.276]Regarding Dull Knife and Little Wolf photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Wilbert Harvey, Birney Day School, 1950, May 8 [frame 17.277]Regarding help for the Northern Cheyennes in Montana; Edward Sandcrane; Cheyenne
girls; warrior women among the Cheyennes.
Item Mari Sandoz to Edward Sandcrane, 1950, May 9 [frame 17.279]Regarding Sandcrane's stories; Sandoz's advice to Sandcrane about becoming a
writer/artist.
Item Alice Smith, Wisconsin State Historical Society, 1950, May 11 [frame 17.281]Regarding request that Sandoz give a speech about "problems of local
history".
Item Louise Pound to Mari Sandoz, 1950, May 12 [frame 17.282-283]Regarding honorary Doctorate Sandoz is to receive.
Item Mari Sandoz to Anne Harris, National Archives, Washington, D.C., 1950, May 12 [frame 17.284]Regarding Dull Knife and Little Wolf photographs; mislabeled photos of Cheyennes.
Item Louise Pound to Mari Sandoz, 1950, May 15 [frame 17.288]Regarding Pound to be Sandoz's escort at commencement in Lincoln.
Item Wilbert Harvey, Birney Day School to Mari Sandoz, 1950, May 21 [frame 17.308-309]Regarding situation at Birney Day School; economic pressures on the Northern
Cheyenne; nature on the reservation.
Item Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz, 1950, May 22 [frame 17.310-311]Regarding Sandoz's writing; June issue to Flair
magazine.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Margaret McBride, Radio host, 1950, May 31 [frame 17.335]Regarding McBride's illness; a Mohawk man visits at Sandoz's apartment in New York
City.
Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1950, May [frame 17.339-341]Regarding news from Lincoln; common friends and acquaintances.
Item Oliver La Farge to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 8 [frame 17.354]Regarding Atlantic Monthly article to be written on
American Indian Civil Rights; La Farge asks Sandoz for information.
Item Mari Sandoz to Louise Pound, 1950, June 11 [frame 17.364-367]Regarding notes about the murrain, a cattle disease in the Lincoln region, 1820's;
U.F.O. reports in late 19th century.
Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 13 [frame 17.372-373]Regarding news from University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Item The A.N. Marquis Company to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 13 [frame 17.378-379]Invitation to Caroline Bancroft book signing
Item Terence Duren to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 17 [frame 17.380]Regarding Duren's attempts to reach Sandoz; art.
Item Louise Pound to Marl Sandoz, 1950, June 18 [frame 17.384]Regarding response to Sandoz's letter of June 11, 1950.
Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1950, June 19 [frame 17.393]Regarding Old Jules as a play; manuscript of Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Rufus Wallowing, 1950, June 19 [frame 17.394]Regarding Flair magazine article; Wallowing's trip to
Washington, D.C.
Item Archie Ogden to J. Chambrun, 1950, June 22 [frame 17.397]Regarding Foal of Heaven rejected.
Item Melvin Van den Bark to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 22 [frame 17.400-401]Regarding congratulations, life in Norman, Oklahoma; writers and writing.
Item Rufus Wallowing to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 23 [frame 17.407]Regarding Wallowing's trip to Washington, D.C.; Cheyenne Sundance; Dallas
Wolfblack.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dr. William Beatty, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1950, June 27 [frame 17.410]Regarding Northern Cheyennes at Tongue River reservation; Sandcrane; school at
Birney; Harvey family at Birney Day School; Cheyennes in the 19th century.
Item Harold Mantell, National Film Committee to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 29 [frame 17.417]Regarding "Broken Arrow"; serious portrayal of Indian in filmes and movies;
Eduard Lindeman; counteracting "defamation of the American Indian."
Item J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 30 [frame 17.419]Regarding arrival of Cheyenne Autumn manuscript.
Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1950, July 1 [frame 17.422]Regarding Foal of Heaven and how it relates to the
Arabian horses at the Van Vleets ranch in Colorado.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1950, July 4 [frame 17.431]Regarding Sandoz's current job at Writer's Institute in Wisconsin; the "Cheyenne
book"; Flair magazine article.
Item Mari Sandoz to Van Vleets, 1950, July 4 [frame 17.432]Regarding Flair article about the Van Vleet's ranch in
Colorado.
Item Carl Sandburg to Miss Gibbons, 1950, July 6 [frame 17.434]Regarding Sandoz article in Flair magazine; music of
Britain.
Item Archie Ogden, Appleton-Century to Mari Sandoz, 1950, July 7 [frame 17.436-437]Regarding Foal of Heaven; getting published; fiction
market of 1950.
Item Mari Sandoz to Archie Ogden, Appleton-Century, 1950, July 11 [frame 17.442-443]Regarding information about publishing fiction; Gone With the
Wind; Sandoz's students at Wisconsin Writer's Institute.
Item Emily Schossbergen, University of Nebraska Press to Mari Sandoz, 1950, July 15 [frame 17.451]Regarding new books and projects coming out from University of Nebraska Press; radio
adaptation of Sandoz's "Peachstone Basket".
Item Mari Sandoz to Louise Pound, 1950, July 16 [frame 17.453]Regarding cattle diseases in the Lincoln region; murrain; Pawnees and Brules die of
eating diseased meat; hoof and mouth disease.
Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1950, July 20 [frame 17.465]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Foal of
Heaven; Westminster Press.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, 1950, July 22 [frame 17.469]Regarding Birney, Montana; Northern Cheyennes; Major Dallas.
Item Dallas Wolfblack to Mari Sandoz, 1950, June 5 [frame 17.470]Out of sequence. Regarding Northern Cheyenne custom; praying for peace during World
War II; giving a feast in thanks for the soldier's return after World War II.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1950, July 24 [frame 17.472-473]Regarding Foal of Heaven; Van Vleet ranch.
Item Melvin Van den Bark to Mari Sandoz, 1950, July 27 [frame 17.48 1-483]Regarding Flair article; Leo Jacks; Marguerite Polk;
summer in Norman, Oklahoma; art and artists; friends and acquaintances.
Item Mari Sandoz to Lee Casey, 1950, Aug. 1 [frame 17.491]Regarding Sitting Bull the Oglala as opposed to Sitting Bull the Hunkpapa; gift to
Sitting Bull of a rifle; duplications in Indian names.
Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1950, Aug. 4 [frame 17.499]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Old
Jules plates; Crazy Horse; working with the
Cheyenne material.
Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Aug. 16 [frame 17.511]Regarding Foal of Heaven rejected by Westminster
Press.
Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1950, Aug. 19 [frame 17.515]Regarding Lazy VV ranch, Van Vleets, up for sale; "The Boss" is sick;
coming back to New York City.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1950, Aug. 21 [frame 17.518]Regarding Foal of Heaven; Cheyenne
Autumn; news of the Van Vleet family and sale of the ranch; more work with
the Cheyenne material; Mary Chase, author of the play "Harvey".
Item Mari Sandoz to Marguerite Young, 1950, Aug. 21 [frame 17.526-527]Regarding "Boss" Van Vleet's condition; Young's "new" novel;
horse shows at the Lazy VV ranch; selling off the Arabian Horses at the Lazy VV.
Item John Cappon to Mr. Fulcher, 1950, Aug. 31 [frame 17.538]Regarding Mari Sandoz; teaching creative writing at the University of Wisconsin.
Item Bertha L. Goetsch to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Sept. 5 [frame 17.544]Regarding Old Jules; historical research about the Swiss
Reformed Church in Ohio; Edouard Sandoz; Sandoz family members.
Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1950, Sept. 7 [frame 17.545]Regarding "Boss" Van Vleet; Lazy VV ranch in Colorado; Foal of Heaven; author Ben Ames Williams; Arthur Godfrey.
Item Mari Sandoz to John Cappon, 1950, Sept. 12 [frame 17.554]Regarding historical writing, dependable source matertial; arms and ammunition.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bertha L. Goetsch, 1950, Sept. 12 [frame 17.557]Regarding Edouard Sandoz and the Swiss Reform Church; Sandoz family notables.
Item Douglas W. Gorsline to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Sept. 18 [frame 17.575]Regarding frontier clothing; cowboy clothing.
Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1950, Sept. 18 [frame 17.578]Regarding Sandoz's impatience with Atlantic and publishing decision about Cheyenne Autumn; Old Jules now
out of print.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1950, Sept. 18 [frame 17.579]Regarding still no decision on Atlantic's publication
of Cheyenne Autumn; re-issue of Old
Jules, Crazy Horse and Cheyenne Autumn in uniform format.
Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hays, 1950, Sept. 19 [frame 17.588]Regarding news of common friends and acquaintances; institutionalized women Sandoz
has known; shock treatments as psychic medicine; seeing UFOs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Maude Houghlan, 1950, Sept. 19 [frame 17.589]Regarding Geraldine Harvey; situation at Birney, Montana; Northern Cheyennes; Nehru
and Gandhi.
Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Sept. 20 [frame 17.592]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; looking at a "three book
deal;" publishing at Westminster.
Item Alexander Lesser, Association on Indian Affairs to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Sept. 20 [frame 17.593]Regarding Opportunity Fellowship grants to be given to American Indian
individuals.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charlie Morton, Atlantic
Monthly, 1950, Sept. 25 [frame 17.595]Regarding Sandoz wants a decision on Cheyenne
Autumn.
Item Charlie Morton, Atlantic Monthly to Mari
Sandoz, 1950, Sept. 27 [frame 17.598]Regarding chronological problems with Cheyenne
Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Alexander Lesser, Association on American Indian
Affairs, 1950, Sept. 27 [frame 17.600-601]Regarding Geraldine Harvey as candidate for the John Hay Whitney Opportunity
Fellowship grant.
Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1950, Oct. 2 [frame 17.613]Regarding return of Cheyenne Autumn from Atlantic Monthly.
Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Oct. 2 [frame 17.614-615]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn too sympathetic for Atlantic Monthly to publish; Weeks says the book is too
confusing; questions that Weeks has regarding the text.
Item Bertha L. Goetsch to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Oct. 3 [frame 17.617-619]Regarding Swiss families; writing history; "Waldensians;" names of Swiss
families to settle near Mount Eaton, Ohio.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic
Monthly, 1950, Oct. 4 [frame 17.621]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bertha L. Goetsch, 1950, Oct. 5 [frame 17.628]Regarding response to Goetsch's letter of October 3, 1950; Swiss families.
Item Mari Sandoz to David Legerman, 1950, Oct. 5 [frame 17.629]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn for Duell, Sloan &
Pearce.
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Oct. 10 [frame 17.633]Regarding Cheyenne Book; Westerner's Brand Book; other books dealing with Indian topics.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charlie Morton, 1950, Oct. 11 [frame 17.637]Regarding map and illustrations that were to go with Cheyenne
Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph Balmer, 1950, Oct. 12 [frame 17.638-639]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; responses to Balmer's letter
of October 10, 1950; Indian subjects.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1950, Oct. 13 [frame 17.641]Regarding Atlantic's rejection of Cheyenne Autumn; Sandoz thinking of sending on to Hoffman's firm; University
of Nebraska Press interested in reprinting Old Jules and
Crazy Horse.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, 1950, Oct. 13 [frame 17.642]Regarding maps and illustrative material to Cheyenne
Autumn.
Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Oct. 18 [frame 17.644]Regarding response to Sandoz's letter of October 13, 1950; "Cheyenne book."
Item Mari Sandoz to New York Zoological Society, 1950, Oct. 19 [frame 17.647]Regarding Huffman photographic collection; Cheyenne photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Stanley Pargellis, Newberry Library, 1950, Oct. 20 [frame 17.649]Regarding Marguerite Young and the Newbery Award.
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Oct. 21 [frame 17.653]Regarding Yellow Hand; Bill Cody; Cheyenne topics.
Item Sandoz's commentary, 1950, Oct. 21 [frame 17.654-657]Regarding Crazy to Ride; information on rodeo and bronco
riding.
Item Edith H. Franz, New York Zoological Society to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Oct. 25 [frame 17.668-669]Regarding Huffman photographs; Cheyenne photographs; Dr. W.T. Hornaday.
Item Lillian Doyle Huntington Library and Reading Room to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Oct. 27 [frame 17.671]Regarding Huffman photographs; Cheyenne photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.K. Burnett, Museum of American Indian, 1950, Oct. 27 [frame 17.672]Regarding Huffman's Cheyenne photographs still not located.
Item Wilbert Harvey, Binney Day School to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Oct. 28 [frame 17.673-674]Regarding conditions at Birney Day School; Northern Cheyennes in Montana;
ceremonials; tribal councilmen form community council; news from Tongue River
Reservation.
Item Mari Sandoz to David Legerman, Duell, Sloan, Pearce Publishers, 1950, Oct. 29 [frame 17.679]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn manuscript.
Item Mari Sandoz to County Clerk, Sioux County, Nebraska, 1950, Oct. 30 [frame 17.686]Regarding monument to Dull Knife.
Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 1 [frame 17.689]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn manuscript; novel contest.
Item Mari Sandoz to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1950, Nov. 1 [frame 17.690]Regarding trends in culture; John Steinbeck.
Item Tom Bledsoe to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 2 [frame 17.693]Regarding Bledsoe's writing in Mexico; plans an article about Sandoz.
Item E.K. Burnett to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 2 [frame 17.694]Regarding Huffman's Cheyenne photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1950, Nov. 5 [frame 17.696]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn manuscript; Sandoz's plans for
a six-book trans-Missouri series.
Item James Mathias, Guggenheim Foundation to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 9 [frame 17.709-711]Regarding Douglas Gorsline's photographic project.
Item Geraldine Harvey, Birney Day School, Montana to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 12 [frame 17.714-715]Regarding news from the Northern Cheyenne reservation and Birney Day School; Native
American church.
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 17 [frame 17.726-727]Regarding Northern Cheyenne's situation; McGillycudy's letters to Billy Garnett;
pictures, drawings of Crazy Horse and He Dog books about the Sioux.
Item Mari Sandoz to David Legerman, 1950, Nov. 20 [frame 17.731]Regarding revisions for Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1950, Nov. 21 [frame 17.733]Regarding carbon of Cheyenne Autumn; Sandoz comments
about the differences between Cheyenne Autumn and Crazy Horse.
Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 23 [frame 17.734-736]Regarding news from Lincoln, Nebraska; common friends and acquaintances.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph Balmer, 1950, Nov. 26 [frame 17.741-743]Regarding Sioux of Pine Ridge; Bad Heart Bull/Bush manuscript; pictures, drawings of
Oglala history; McGillycudy/Garnett letters' Sandoz comments on McGillycudy, Agent;
Roosevelt and the Northern Cheyennes; winter 1948 and current Cheyenne situation in
Montana; T.B. and other illnesses among the Cheyennes; school facilities at the
Northern Cheyenne reservation.
Item Henry Moe, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 27 [frame 17.746-755]Regarding applicants for the 1951 fellowship awards.
Item Everett P. Wilson to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Nov. 29 [frame 17.759-766]Regarding Sioux memorial project in Nebraska; Crazy
Horse; information about the project and proposed memorial sites.
Item Mari Sandoz to Everett P. Wilson, 1950, Dec. 2 [frame 17.770]Regarding Sioux memorial project; Sandoz relates her current situation with Cheyenne Autumn; Man Afraid of His Horse family; Lakota.
Item Mari Sandoz to Greer Garson, 1950, Dec. 8 [frame 17.780-781]Regarding making movies about the West; women doctors in the West.
Item E.P. Wilson to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Dec. 9 [frame 17.782-785]Regarding sources for historical photographs and Plains Indian material.
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Dec. 12 [frame 17.789-790]Regarding Plain Indians topics; Billy Garnett and Dr. McGillycudy; He Dog; Eagle Hawk
pictures; Custer battle; drawings of Crazy Horse; Swiss Mennonites; Haskell
Institute.
Item Mari Sandoz to MacIntosh and Otis publishers, 1950, Dec. 12 [frame 17.791]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn sent for consideration;
Sandoz's plan for six book series.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.P. Wilson, 1950, Dec. 14 [frame 17.800-801]Regarding response to his letter of December 12, 1950; Lame Deer; Montana; the
McGregors of Pine Ridge; He Dog and Eagle Hawk, Oglalas; the Little Wound papers.
Item Geraldine Harvey, Birney Day School to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Dec. 17 [frame 17.808-809]Regarding Northern Cheyennes at Lame Deer, Montana; situation, poverty on the
reservation; Indians on relief; economic problems on the reservation.
Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1950, Dec. 17 [frame 17.811-812]Regarding New York City news; common friends and acquaintances; Terrence Duren's art
show.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1950, Dec. 18 [frame 17.814]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; revisions.
Item Joe Nuquest to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Dec. 19 [frame 17.816-817]Regarding Geraldine Harvey; Northern Cheyenne problems; Indian administrations; adult
education on the reservation; John Collier's "policy".
Item Everett P. Wilson to Mari Sandoz, 1950, Dec. 22 [frame 17.823-824]Regarding Sandoz's historical works; Sioux memorial project on hold because of Korean
War; Daughters of American Revolution; Little Wound papers; Cheyenne photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph Neyer, 1950, Dec. 31 [frame 17.838-839]Regarding Ponca Chief Standing Bear; Ponca Indians of Nebraska.
Item , undated [frame 17.889-898]Sandoz to be included in the 1950 volume of Who Knows and
What; accompanied with letters and notes.
Item Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz, 1951, Jan. 3 [frame 17.906-907]Regarding a book for Sandoz; trip to Mexico; Rivera murals; Mexican Indians.
Item Ollie Mills to Mari Sandoz, 1951, Jan. 7 [frame 17.909-911]Regarding Slogum House.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis, MacIntosh & Otis, 1951, Jan. 12 [frame 17.916]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Scribners; new novel, Son of a Gamblin' Man; Cheyenne
Autumn as a creative and imaginative work; Old
Jules'.
Item Elizabeth Otis, MacIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1951, Jan. 15 [frame 17.918]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn and Scribners; Paul Hoffman at
Westminster.
Item John Swantek to Mari Sandoz, 1951, Jan. 15 [frame 17.920-923]Regarding Crazy Horse; questions about the book and the
man from a high school student from Connecticut.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1951, Jan. 17 [frame 17.925]Regarding new year greetings holidays; Flora Sandoz jelly enterprise; Cheyenne Autumn; "The Snowstorm" this will become "Winter
Thunder."
Item Harold Mantell to Kay Bosely, 1951, Jan. 17 [frame 17.928-929]Regarding American Indian telecasts on Zeke Manners show; guests and topics, Sandoz
to appear February 1, 1951.
Item Mari Sandoz to John Swantek, 1951, Jan. 19 [frame 17.931-932]Regarding Crazy Horse; Blackfoot nation; Blackfoot Sioux band; Sandoz's responses to
Swantek's questions of January 1951 regarding the Lakotas; Fort Robinson; Cheyennes;
Crazy Horse's relatives.
Item Greer Garson Folgeson to Mari Sandoz, 1951, Jan. 22 [frame 17.935-936]Regarding Garson's response to Sandoz's letter of December 18, 1950; sparking
interest in movie ideas.
Item Archie Odgen, Appleton-Century to Mari Sandoz, 1951, Jan. 24 [frame 17.941]Regarding interest in Son of a Gamblin' Man.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis, MacIntosh & Otis, 1951, Jan. 26 [frame 17.946]Regarding "The Snowstorm"; blizzards on the Plains.
Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1951, Jan. 28 [frame 17.948-950]Regarding news from Lincoln, Nebraska about common friends and acquaintances.
Item Edward Sandcrane to Mari Sandoz, 1951, Jan. 28 [frame 17.951-952]Regarding Sandcrane in the U.S. Army; Korean War; W.B. Harvey; Sandcrane is
homesick.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis, 1951, Jan. 29 [frame 17.955-956]Regarding letter from Greer Garson; Sandoz's ideas for a story of a woman doctor on
the plains during the 19th century.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joe De Yong, 1951, Jan. 30 [frame 17.962]Regarding Tongue River country on the Great Plains.
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