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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the microfilm indexing.Container List:
Box 12. Correspondence 1953, Jan.-Dec. [Microfilm Reel MS00020]Item Mari Sandoz to Peter Decker, 1953, Jan. 2 [frame 20.5-9]Regarding Beyond a Big Mountain; Sandoz's critique of
Decker's work, regarding misinformation about various Indian customs, etc.
Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1953, Jan. 5 [frame 20.11-12]Regarding Sandoz's response to Hayes's accumulated letters, news of common friends
and acquaintances; life in New York City; telling fortunes, cancer.
Item Raymond Vickers to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Jan. 5 [frame 20.13-16]Regarding music; art; relationships; Thornton Wilder; the nature of man; MacDowell
colony.
Item Peter Decker to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Jan. 7 [frame 20.19]Regarding Decker's response to Sandoz's critique of his work.
Item Notes, 1953, Jan. 8 [frame 20.20]about Sidnee Livingston; Guggenheim recommendation.
Item Raymond Vickers to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Jan. 14 [frame 20.34]Regarding MacDowell colony; Thornton Wilder; dream stories.
Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese, Editor, Hastings House, 1953, Jan. 15 [frame 20.36]Regarding Buffalo Hunters; Wild Bill Hickok; McCall.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Quint, 1953, Jan. 16 [frame 20.50]Regarding Archie Teater's painting of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Louise Pound, 1953, Jan. 18 [frame 20.51]Regarding "John Maher Hoaxes;" Bassett, Nebraska; oil in Nebraska.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis, McIntosh & Otis, 1953, Jan. 22 [frame 20.64]Regarding Ed Aswell's fall publication of Cheyenne Autumn; Miss
Morissa; a speaking tour for publicity.
Item Annie Laurie Williams to Roy M. Brewer, 1953, Jan. 25 [frame 20.70]Regarding a film of Old Jules; screen treatment
underway.
Item Mari Sandoz to John Parsons, 1953, Feb. 4 [frame 20.97-98]Regarding John W. Smith; Indian weapons and gun running; military matters on the
frontier 1870's.
Item Mari Sandoz to Melvin Van den Bark, 1953, Feb. 5 [frame 20.106]Regarding publishing agents; Mclntosh & Otis.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph Balmer, 1953, Feb. 6 [frame 20.108]Regarding Cheyenne Indians; Little Wolf; photos of particular Indians; Black Wolf;
Rain in the Face.
Item Mari Sandoz to "Boss" Van Vleet, 1953, Feb. 6 [frame 20.115]Regarding death of Ben Ames Williams; Arabian horse "picture;" a Mari Sandoz
autobiography; Denver; Archie Teater.
Item J. Cameron Thomson to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Feb. 6 [frame 20.118-150]Regarding Northwest Bancorporation Report; Nebraska story included.
Item Mari Sandoz to J.G.E. Hopkins, Scribners, 1953, Feb. 10 [frame 20.156]Regarding confusion over Indian photographs; Cheyennes; Little Wolf.
Item Melvin Van den Bark to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Feb. 10 [frame 20.157-158]Regarding response to Sandoz's letter of February 5, 1953; publishers; Oklahoma
weather; John Maher article by Louise Pound; news of friends and family.
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Feb. 22 [frame 20.173]Regarding Cheyenne Indians; books about Indian Wars; Indian photographs.
Item Gertrude Rulkoltter? to Louise Pound, 1953, Mar. 1 [frame 20.190]Regarding Mari Sandoz.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph Balmer, 1953, Mar. 2 [frame 20.193-194]Regarding Cheyennes; identifying Indians in photographs; Little Wolf; Grinnell;
Smithsonian museum; Crazy Horse.
Item Mari Sandoz to Melvin Van den Bark, 1953, Mar. 2 [frame 20.195]Regarding John Maher article by Louise Pound; death of Gretchen Lee.
Item Mari Sandoz to Stanley Vestal, 1953, Mar. 2 [frame 20.196-197]Regarding Warpath and Council Fire; Roman Nose the
Cheyenne; Roman Nose the Minniconjou; Indian photographs.
Item Stanley Vestal to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 5 [frame 20.200]Regarding Roman Nose, the Sioux Minniconjou; Roman Nose the Cheyenne.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.G. Washburn, 1953, Mar. 5 [frame 20.207]Regarding Wild Bill Hickok; relatives of Wild Bill.
Item Mari Sandoz to W.D. Wimer, 1953, Mar. 5 [frame 20.208]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Sandoz's buffalo project;
pioneers in Kansas.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis, 1953, Mar. 7 [frame 20.212-213]Regarding Wesley Towner; publishing problems; Anneke Jans; Manhattan Island.
Item Raymond Vickers to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 8 [frame 20.218-219]Regarding writing of dreams; Seven Gothic Tales; Winter Tales; Out of Africa; New
York City places.
Item Sherman S. Cohen, Attorney at Law to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 9 [frame 20.220]Regarding Katherine Rogers, a friend of Sandoz's is hospitalized for mental
illness.
Item Mari Sandoz to Stanley Vestal, W.S. Campbell, 1953, Mar. 9 [frame 20.222]Regarding Warpath and Council Fire; Indian photographs;
Cheyenne relationships and families; Archie Teater's painting of the Custer
battle.
Item Peter Decker to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 10 [frame 20.224-225]Regarding New York Posse of Westerners meeting; Brand Books.
Item Paul Galleher to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. [frame 20.226]Regarding Los Angeles Posse of Westerners; Brand Book.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. H.H. Gibson, 1953, Mar. 14 [frame 20.234]Regarding Shoshoni and Arapaho Indians; Grace Hebard Collection at University of
Wyoming; where to find clippings about Shoshonis or Arapahos.
Item Mari Sandoz to Isabella Quinn, 1953, Mar. 14 [frame 20.235]Regarding finding a publisher.
Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Sauer, 1953, Mar. 14 [frame 20.236]Regarding "The Lost School Bus."
Item Mari Sandoz to Raymond Vickers, 1953, Mar. 14 [frame 20.239]Regarding Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen; Seven Gothic Tales;
allegorical writings; symbolic writing.
Item Mari Sandoz to Kansas State Historical Society, 1953, Mar. 17 [frame 20.243]Regarding buffalo hunting laws.
Item Mari Sandoz to Katherine (Kay) Rogers, 1953, Mar. 19 [frame 20.251]Regarding common friends and acquaintances; Willa Cather.
Item Kansas State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 21 [frame 20.255]Regarding buffalo hunting laws, 1874.
Item E.G. Washburn to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 21 [frame 20.257]Regarding Wild Bill Hickok relatives; Barnes'; see also frame #254.
Item Newspaper clipping, 1953, Mar. 21 [frame 20.258]Regarding Jeff Chandler as Crazy Horse in a movie.
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 23 [frame 20.259-260]Regarding mislabeled Indian photographs; Stanley Vestal.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.A. Brininstool, 1953, Mar. 26 [frame 20.269]Regarding Troopers with Custer; Crazy Horse movie.
Item Nancy Reynolds, Atlantic Monthly Press to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 30 [frame 20.273]Regarding Old Jules as script for television show.
Item Mari Sandoz to Katherine (Kay) Rogers, 1953, Mar. 30 [frame 20.275-276]Regarding Rogers improvement; common friends and acquaintances.
Item Series of letters, 1953, Mar. 31 [frame 20.279-282]about Old Jules as a television script.
Item Arthur W. Wang, A.A. Wyn Publishers to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Mar. 31 [frame 20.283]Regarding Wesley Towner's "Parke - Bernet book."
Item Mari Sandoz to Wesley Towner, 1953, Apr. 1 [frame 20.285]Regarding the A.A. Wyn deal.
Item Marl Sandoz to Frances Fritchey, 1953, Apr. 2 [frame 20.286]Regarding Old Jules; Sandoz's days as a prairie school
teacher; Indian beads collected by aunts; mothers.
Item E.A. Brininstool to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 5 [frame 20.294]Regarding George Heye; Crazy Horse movie; Ghost dance shirts.
Item Mari Sandoz to Thunderhawk, 1953, Apr. 23 [frame 20.309]Letter out of order; Regarding hospital stay; Crazy
Horse.
Item John du Mont to Mari Sandoz, April 14, 1953 [frame 20.311]Regarding Custer battle guns; Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana.
Item Alice J. Palmer, McGraw-Hill Books to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 16 [frame 20.314]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; revisions.
Item Mari Sandoz to John du Mont, 1953, Apr. 16 [frame 20.315-316]Regarding Custer's battle guns; Cheyenne's stories of the "white handled guns;" Old
Cheyenne Woman; Rufus Wallowing.
Item Mari Sandoz Rufus Wallowing, 1953, Apr. 16 [frame 20.318]Regarding introduction to John du Mont; weapons of the Custer battle.
Item Edith H. Sherrard to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 17 [frame 20.320]Regarding American Association of University Women (A.A.U.W) writing project.
Item A. Thunderhawk to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 17 [frame 20.321-322]Regarding Crazy Horse; Thunderhawk's grandparents.
Item Mari Sandoz to Edith H. Sherrard, 1953, Apr. 18 [frame 20.323]Regarding A.A.U.W. writing project.
Item Gail Shickley to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 18 [frame 20.324-325]Regarding springtime in the Sandhills; dances among the Pueblo Indians; Wendell
Johnson; speech impediments among Native Americans.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph Bryant, 1953, Apr. 20 [frame 20.328]Regarding Custer's body; Custer battle painting by Archie Teater; interest growing
about Custer.
Item Mari Sandoz to Alice Palmer, McGraw-Hill, 1953, Apr. 20 [frame 20.330]Regarding revisions, additions for Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Sonia Leventhal, McGraw-Hill to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 20 [frame 20.337]Regarding publicity for Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Alice H. Palmer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 22 [frame 20.339]Regarding revisions and additions for Cheyenne Autumn;
plural form of "buffalo."
Item Alice H. Palmer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 23 [frame 20.342]Regarding source notes for Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Peter J. Powell to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 24 [frame 20.344-345]Regarding Crazy Horse; Teton Lakotas; welfare of present.
Item Melvin Van den Bark to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 26 [frame 20.349]Regarding news from Norman, Okalhoma; Willa Cather, a Critical
Biography; a biography of Charles Dickens.
Item Alice H. Palmer, McGraw-Hill to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Apr. 28 [frame 20.357]Regarding copy editing, Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Senator Dwight Griswold, 1953, Apr. 30 [frame 20.364]Regarding offshore oil lands bill; natural resources.
Item Mari Sandoz to various U.S. Senators, 1953, Apr. 30 [frame 20.366, 368-375]Regarding Anderson and Hill amendments; offshore oil lands bill.
Item Alice H. Palmer, McGraw-Hill to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 1 [frame 20.378]Regarding foreword to Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Rev. Peter J. Powell, 1953, May 4 [frame 20.391]Regarding Crazy Horse;Teton Lakotas; Father DeSmet.
Item Senators Langer, Russell to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 5 [frame 20.392-393]Regarding response to Sandoz's letters of April 30, 1953; offshore oil lands
bill.
Item Senator Francis Case to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 7 [frame 20.398]Regarding Anderson-Hill Bill
Item Mari Sandoz to John du Mont, 1953, May 7 [frame 20.399]Regarding paying Indian informants; "going wages"
Item Mari Sandoz to Miss Edna Lee, 1953, May 7 [frame 20.400-401]Regarding James Thurber; writing workshops; agents; humor in writing
Item Edith Sherrard, A.A.U.W. to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 7 [frame 20.403]Regarding Sandoz to judge manuscripts for Writing Project
Item W.D. Wimer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 8 [frame 20.404-406]Regarding Sandoz's "Cheynne book;" Kansas pioneers; Barnes and Hickok
connections.
Item Senator Saltonstall to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 12 [frame 20.408]Regarding response to Sandoz letter about offshore oil lands.
Item Mari Sandoz to John Leermachers, 1953, May 14 [frame 20.410]Regarding Windlass Hill; A History of Western Nebraska and Its
People by Shumway.
Item Pamphlet, 1953, May 15 [frame 20.411-412]Membership of Westerners New York Posse.
Item Alice H. Palmer, McGraw-Hill to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 18 [frame 20.413]Regarding galley proofs, Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Jack (John?) Leermachers to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 22 [frame 20.415]Regarding Windlass Hill; McGillycudy diaries.
Item Marvin Kivett, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1953, May 23 [frame 20.417]Regarding Indian clothing; rumoured scalp shirt of Crazy Horse; asks advice about
this shirt.
Item Mari Sandoz to Peter Decker, 1953, May 25 [frame 20.424]Regarding McGillycudy diaries; "vest pocket journals;" Cheyenne
Autumn; Wyoming history buffs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Edith H. Sherrard, 1953, May 25 [frame 20.426-439]Regarding Sandoz judgment of manuscripts for A.A.U.W. Writing Project. Notes on each
of the A.A.U.W. Writing Project submissions.
Item Mari Sandoz to Marvin Kivett, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1953, May 26 [frame 20.441]Regarding buckskin shirt rumored to be Crazy Horse's; Zimmerman's Brule collection;
Big Mouth; Black Dog; Rainwater.
Item Mari Sandoz to Alice H. Palmer, McGraw-Hill, 1953, May 27 [frame 20.442]Regarding map for Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ernest I. Miller, Cincinnati Public Library, 1953, May 28 [frame 20.445-446]Regarding The Tom-Walker; Cincinnati, Ohio; John Andrew
Rice; history professor; John Hicks, history professor; allegorical pattern in Tom-Walker.
Item Mari Sandoz to C.E. Dailey, 1953, May 30 [frame 20.449]Regarding Missouri River work songs; folksongs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Donald Stewart, Encyclopedia
Britannica, 1953, May 30 [frame 20.450]Regarding peyote; peyote in Indian ceremonies; Native American church.
Item Roy Brewer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, June 4 [frame 20.463]Regarding making a film Old Jules.
Item Mari Sandoz to Alice H. Palmer, 1953, June 4 [frame 20.464]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn notes and changes.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith, 1953, June 9 [frame 20.480]Regarding ghost fireballs on the Niobrara river.
Item Alice H. Palmer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, June 11 [frame 20.483-484]Regarding galley proofs to Cheyenne Autumn.
Item F.H. Sinclair to Mari Sandoz, 1953, June 13 [frame 20.496]Regarding All American Indian Days in Sheridan, Wyoming.
Item Oliver LaFarge to Mari Sandoz, 1953, June 17 [frame 20.505]Regarding legal status of American Indians; Association on American Indian
Affairs.
Item Mari Sandoz to W.D. Wimer, 1953, June 19 [frame 20.]Regarding Hickok family history; Barnes Hickok connection; Hickok as a buffalo
hunter; Cheyenne Autumn; photo of Dull Knife.
Item Mari Sandoz to Wilbert Harvey, 1953, June 20 [frame 20.513]Regarding Cheyenne boys artwork; Cheyenne Autumn; Birney
Day School.
Item Notice, 1953, June 20 [frame 20.517]Regarding Indian Miss America Contest in Sheridan, Wyoming.
Item "Neck-Yoke Jones", F.H. Sinclair to Mari Sandoz, 1953, June 24 [frame 20.525]Regarding All-American Indians Days information; Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow and other
tribes to participate; Julia Wild Hog; moving Sitting Bull's bones; Crazy Horse
carving.
Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Sauer, 1953, June 25 [frame 20.536]Regarding Old Jules; rights of publication; University
of Oklahoma Press; Crazy Horse; Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Caroline Sauer, McIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1953, July 2 [frame 20.545]Regarding reprinting Old Jules; Modern Library.
Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Sauer, McIntosh & Otis, 1953, July 6 [frame 20.547]Regarding reprinting of Old Jules.
Item Mari Sandoz to Savoie Lottinville, University of Oklahoma Press, 1953, July 7 [frame 20.549]Regarding Old Jules.
Item Savoie Lottinville, University of Oklahoma Press to Mari Sandoz, 1953, July 14 [frame 20.559]Regarding Old Jules; Cheynne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Annie Laurie Williams, 1953, July 15 [frame 20.562]Regarding motion picture of Old Jules; Cheyenne Autumn;
Fast's book, Last Frontier; reprint of Old Jules.
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, July 16 [frame 20.565]Regarding Indian photographs; Sandoz's "Cheynne book;" Cheyenne language; "Indian
clubs" in Germany; Prince Wied collection.
Item Annie Laurie Williams to Mari Sandoz, 1953, July 22 [frame 20.586]Regarding M.G.M. option on Old Jules; Cheyenne
Autumn.
Item Caroline Sauer, McIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1953, July 29 [frame 20.592]Regarding The Lost School Bus considered for book
publication through McGraw-Hill.
Item Mari Sandoz to Publicity Department at McGraw-Hill, 1953, Aug. 19 [frame 20.627]Regarding publicity for Cheyenne Autumn in
Wisconsin.
Item Betty Willoughby to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Aug. 27 [frame 20.650]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Bernice Fitzgibbons; Caribou
song from Flair article.
Item Sibyl Davis, Van Vleet Arabian Horses to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Aug. 28 [frame 20.651]Regarding photo of Sandoz with Rifage, a Van Vleet Arabian for Cheyenne Autumn jacket.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. J.C. Edmondson, 1953, Aug. 29 [frame 20.657]Regarding death of Maud Houghlan, a good friend of Sandoz's; Houghian's "book."
Item Mari Sandoz to Sibyl Davis, 1953, Aug. 31 [frame 20.661]Regarding photo of Sandoz; Cheyenne Autumn nears
completion for release; Sandoz's busy schedule.
Item Mari Sandoz to John E. Parsons, 1953, Sept. 5 [frame 20.682]Regarding Firearms in the Custer Battle.
Item Mari Sandoz to J. Donald Adams, Speaking of Books, 1953, Sept. 7 [frame 20.684]Regarding Tomkin's Universal Sign Language; Indian sign language
Item Mari Sandoz to Joyce ?, 1953, Sept. 8 [frame 20.686-687]Sandoz's comments on Finnegans Wake; The Fable; The Eleven
Comedies; War & Peace; Leaves of Grass; reading on a "desert island."
Item Mari Sandoz to Anna Mary Auman, 1953, Sept. 12 [frame 20.694]Regarding Old Lincoln days; sewing machine storage; common friends and
acquaintances.
Item Mari Sandoz to Benjamin Botkin, 1953, Sept. 14 [frame 20.701]Regarding Botkin's "railroad book;" Bill Cody; John Tennis; buffalo hunting; Buffalo
Bill Comstock.
Item Mari Sandoz to Thomas Hornsby Ferril, 1953, Sept. 19 [frame 20.708]Regarding Bighorn sheep; the trader, LeBeau.
Item Mari Sandoz to Archie and Pat Teater, 1953, Sept. 19 [frame 20.709]Regarding artists colony at Taos, New Mexico; Colorado Springs; Aspen, Colorado.
Item Mari Sandoz to Sales Department McGraw-Hill, 1953, Sept. 20 [frame 20.716]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn to be released on November 9,
1953; Sandoz to autograph copies.
Item "Boss" Van Vleet to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Sept. 24 [frame 20.721-722]Regarding death of Tom Smith; news of Carl Raswan.
Item Mari Sandoz to "Boss" Van Vleet, 1953, Sept. 26 [frame 20.728]Regarding death of Tom Smith; Carl Raswan.
Item Mari Sandoz to Marguerite Young, 1953, Sept. 27 [frame 20.729]Regarding greetings; catching up on news of common friends. Young's letter to Sandoz
follows in frames 731-732.
Item Mari Sandoz to Director, Folk Music WNYC Radio, 1953, Oct. 1 [frame 20.734]Regarding folk songs.
Item Mari Sandoz to John S. DuMont, 1953, Oct. 3 [frame 20.737]Regarding photo of Northern Cheyennes; Chief Eddie Grey, Rufus Wallowing.
Item Archie and Pat Teater to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Oct. 4 [frame 20.739]Regarding Teater to be featured on CBS TV; Frank Lloyd Wright to help Teater build a
studio; paintings.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot, 1953, Oct. 5 [frame 20.740]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Buffalo Hunters.
Item Mari Sandoz to Sonia Levinthal, 1953, Oct. 5 [frame 20.741]Regarding Thomas Hornsby Ferril.
Item Oliver LaFarge, Association on American Indian Affairs to Mari
Sandoz, 1953, Oct. 16 [frame 20.761]Regarding Federal legislation and Indian affairs; trying to "turn Indians over to
state and local authority;" Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Sonia Levinthal, 1953, Oct. 23 [frame 20.764-766]Regarding Northern Cheyennes at Tongue River Reservation; homes on the Reservation;
Indian health, hospital, school at Tongue River.
Item Mari Sandoz to Rufus Wallowing, Northern Cheyenne Tribal
Chairman, 1953, Oct. 24 [frame 20.769]Regarding Sandoz to be doing interviews for publicity on Cheyenne Autumn; presenting the needs of the present-day Northern Cheyennes
to the American public via television and radio; queries about conditions at Tongue
River Reservation.
Item Rufus Wallowing to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Oct. 27 [frame 20.774]Regarding visit of John DuMont and James Hutchins; Custer battle; attending Indian
Rights conferences and conventions.
Item Mari Sandoz to Eugene Fisher, President, Northern Cheyenne Tribal
Council, 1953, Nov. 3 [frame 20.782]Regarding situation at the Tongue River Reservation; getting the needs of present day
Cheyennes before the American public; queries about Tongue River Reservation.
Item Mari Sandoz to Carl Pearson, Superintendant, Tongue River
Reservation, 1953, Nov. 3 [frame 20.783]Regarding Northern Cheyenne's situation; Cheyenne
Autumn; also see frame 778.
Item Gerry Harvey to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 4 [frame 20.784-790]Regarding why Harvey left teaching at Birney Day School; Cheyennes; Taos Indians'
situation; assimilation issues; answers to Sandoz's queries about Tongue River
Reservation health, education and welfare; religions at Tongue River Reservation.
Item Mari Sandoz to Geny Harvey, 1953, Nov. 5 [frame 20.791]Regarding Taos Pueblo; New Mexico; Northern Cheyennes; getting publicity for the
problems at Tongue River Reservation.
Item H.D. Wimer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 5 [frame 20.792]Regarding hide hunters vs. buffalo hunters; Sappa massacre in Northwestern
Kansas.
Item Mark H. Brown to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 10 [frame 20.796]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; the Huffman photographic
collection, Cheyenne photographs; Little Wolf; identifying the Indians in old
photographs; the Huffman papers.
Item Melvin Van den Bark to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 10 [frame 20.798-799]Regarding Van den Bark's new house in Norman, Oklahoma; news of friends and
acquaintances.
Item Mari Sandoz to George A. MacPherson, Sr., 1953, Nov. 11 [frame 20.803]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Little Wolf's winter camp in
the Sandhills of Nebraska.
Item Mari Sandoz to "Neckyoke", F.H. Sinclair, 1953, Nov. 11 [frame 20.804]Regarding working with Indian youth; Julia Wild Hog; old Cheyenne woman; George Bent;
Crazy Horse carving in the Black Hills; painter, Archie
Teater.
Item Mari Sandoz to Melvin Van den Bark, 1953, Nov. 13 [frame 20.811-812]Regarding Van den Bark's new home; Sandoz's work in Texas history for The Buffalo Hunters; Cheyenne Autumn; publicity for Cheyenne Autumn; theater season in New York City; the
"Jacquetta Hawkes and Priestly scandal;" news of friends and acquaintances.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mark H. Brown, 1953, Nov. 14 [frame 20.813-814]Regarding the Huffman photographs; the "Cheyenne Collection" of Huffman's work;
Little Wolf; Lieutenant Clark photograph; identifying Indians in old prints; the many
misidentified photographs of "Crazy Horse."
Item Ronald Van Vleuten to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 15 [frame 20.816-818]Regarding Crow dancers in Holland; Van Vleuten's interest in Indian culture; Canadian
Indians; asks Sandoz to write the story of "Almighty Voice;" a Cree.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Harry S. Truman, 1953, Nov. 17 [frame 20.828]Regarding Herbert Brownell and J. Edgar Hoover; Eisenhower
Item Mari Sandoz to Ronald Van Vleuten, 1953, Nov. 18 [frame 20.830]Regarding the story of Almight Voice; "Long Lances's treatment" of this story;
Canada's treatment of Indians; Riel's uprising.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbott, MacIntosh & Otis, 1953, Nov. 20 [frame 20.842]Not sent; Regarding artistry in writing; Sandoz defends her writing style; Buffalo Hunters.
Item Mark H. Brown to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 22 [frame 20.845-847]Regarding Brown relates his background in photography study; the Huffman photographic
collection; Dull Knife photograph; Mrs. Huffman-Felton, daughter of the photographer;
Brown trying to get a book published about the Huffman Collection.
Item Brummett Echohawk to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 22 [frame 20.848]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; future plans for a Pawnee
history; Pawnee Elders; Echohawk's artwork for Western Horseman.
Item Ruth Morse to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 22 [frame 20.849-850]Regarding Omaha Writer's Conference.
Item Mari Sandoz to Eugene Fisher, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council, November 24, 1953 [frame 20.866]Regarding Sandoz's radio and television interviews regarding Cheyenne Autumn and the present needs of the Northern Cheyennes; reviews of
Cheyenne Autumn
Item Mari Sandoz to Bemardine Kielty, 1953, Nov. 24 [frame 20.867]Regarding Howard Fast plagiarism suit in regard to The Last
Frontier.
Item Thomas Galey to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 26 [frame 20.876]Regarding photographs taken of Northern Cheyennes in Lame Deer, 1920; Laban Little
Wolf George Bird Grinnell; Bull Hump, Dull Knife's son.
Item Bernardine Kielty to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 28 [frame 20.879]Regarding Howard Fast's The Last Frontier
controversy.
Item Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 28 [frame 20.881-882]An eloquent letter about Cheyenne Autumn; Stepanek
comments on Sandoz's other books as well
Item Harry S. Truman to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 30 [frame 20.888]Regarding response to Sandoz's letter of November 17, 1953.
Item Ray Vickers to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Nov. 30 [frame 20.889-890]Regarding getting published; censorship and blacklisting.
Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 1 [frame 20.898]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Dora Wright to Betty Cass, 1953, Dec. 1 [frame 20.900-903]Regarding Tongue River Reservation; Northern
Cheyennes.
Item Marguerite Young to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 3 [frame 20.911-912]Regarding Rome, Italy; common friends and acquaintances.
Item RD. Wimer to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 5 [frame 20.924]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; items about "Indian
massacre."
Item Russ Langford to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 7 [frame 20.929-930]Regarding Cheyenne Sacred arrows; Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 7 [frame 20.936]Regarding review of Cheyenne Autumn; news of Louise
Pound and the American Dialect Society.
Item Joe Nuquist to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 7 [frame 20.937]Regarding treatment of the American Indian; Native American woman scholar, Gerry
Harvey; politics of the day; "McCarthy's antics."
Item Maurice Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 7 [frame 20.939]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn
Item Roy Brewer, Allied Artists Productions to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 9 [frame 20.945]Regarding a movie of Old Jules.
Item Mari Sandoz to Francis Lambert, 1953, Dec. 9 [frame 20.946]Regarding misidentified Indian photographs; Little Wolf, Clark; Martin Schmitt's
autobiography of General Crook; the Huffman collection.
Item Mari Sandoz to Eugene Fisher, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council, 1953, Dec. 10 [frame 20.949]Regarding press conference information regarding Northern Cheyenne situation.
Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 12 [frame 20.955]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbott, McIntosh & Otis, 1953, Dec. 15 [frame 20.964]Regarding final chapters of Buffalo Hunters.
Item Mari Sandoz to Roy Brewer, 1953, Dec. 15 [frame 20.965]Regarding movie rights to Old Jules.
Item Mary Abbott, McIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 16 [frame 20.968]Regarding review of Cheyenne Autumn; Buffalo
Hunters.
Item Mari Sandoz to Thomas Galey, 1953, Dec. 17 [frame 20.976]Regarding Cheyennes on the flight to the North; Indian photographs; different
Cheyenne individuals: Black Horse, Bull Hump (the son of Dull Knife); "Bull Hump of
the Black Kettle campaign;" Old Cheyenne woman; intermarriage between Cheyenne and
Sioux.
Item Mari Sandoz to Russ Langford, 1953, Dec. 17 [frame 20.977]Regarding the Sacred arrows of the Northern Cheyenne; other source material on the
sacred arrows.
Item Paul Fulcher to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 18 [frame 20.981-984]Regarding news from the University of Wisconsin; news of the Writer's Institute at
Wisconsin.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ralph Velich, 1953, Dec. 18 [frame 20.988]Regarding the Crazy Horse shirt at Nebraska State Historical Society; Black Elk.
Item Mary Averett Seelye, A.A.U.W. to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 18 [frame 20.990]Regarding judging A.A.U.W. writing group entries; query on literary criticism
standards.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbott, McIntosh & Otis, 1953, Dec. 20 [frame 20.997-998]Regarding language in Cheyenne Autumn; "poetic quality"
in writing; Crazy Horse; Buffalo Hunters.
Item Mari Sandoz to Melvin Van den Bark, 1953, Dec. 20 [frame 20.999]Regarding mail service; Cheyenne Autumn reviews; news of
common friends.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Fulcher, 1953, Dec. 23 [frame 20.1011]Regarding Sandoz not returning to Wisconsin Writer's Institute; Mari's thoughts on
the Writer's Institute.
Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1953, Dec. 24 [frame 20.1013]Regarding "Nebraska week" in New York City; news of common friends in New York
City.
Item Esther and Felix Sandoz? to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 27 [frame 20.1015]Regarding Uncle Charlie's funeral; Aunt Susette.
Item Phil Gordon to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 27 [frame 20.1018]Regarding grandson of General Davis Stewart Gordon, of Fort Phil Kearney.
Item Mari Sandoz to Max Gissen, Time
Magazine, 1953, Dec. 27 [frame 20.1020]Regarding Sandoz's brothers' back surgeries.
Item , 1953, Dec. 27 [frame 20.1021]Excerpts from Bettelyoun manuscript.
Item Joe Kollen to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. 31 [frame 20.1038-1040]Regarding writing; Sitting Bull's bones; the "Two Sitting Bulls;" Crazy Horse
photographs; Lieutenant E.W. Casey.
Item Gerry Harvey to Mari Sandoz, 1953, Dec. [frame 20.1051-1052]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Christmas ceremonials at Taos
Pueblo.
Item Drawing by artist Archie Teater, 1953 [frame 20.1056]
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