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 13. Correspondence, 1953, Jan.-1954, June [Microfilm Reel MS00021]Item , 1953, Dec. [frame 21.2-75]Christmas cards from 1953.
Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1953? [frame 21.90-97]Regarding news of common friends and acquaintances; Hayes' trip to New York City,
books.
Item Eleanor Hinman to Mari Sandoz, 1953? [frame 21.98-109]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Hinman's new Lincoln
apartment at 19th & "B;" friendships; Hazel Hindermarsh; W.K. Werkmeister; author
Coleridge; quantum physics poem. These pages are filmed out of order, K.L.
Item Certificate, 1953? [frame 21.131]Metropolitan Opera Patron certificate.
Item Melvin Van den Bark to Mari Sandoz, 1953? [frame 21.152-156]Regarding various letters with news from Norman, Oklahoma; common friends and
acquaintances.
Item Nell Wightman to Mari Sandoz, 1953? [frame 21.163]Regarding a copy of Cheyenne Autumn for Mrs. Bartlett
Inez Richards.
Item J. Donald Adams, New York Times Book Review to
Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 2 [frame 21.172]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to "Chief" Claremore II, 1954, Jan. 2 [frame 21.176]Regarding contrary society of Plains Indians. This letter appears to be written in
jest, K.L.
Item LaVerne Madigan, Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc. to Mari
Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 3 [frame 21.178]Regarding request that Sandoz contribute an article to The
American Indian magazine.
Item Jack Schafer, author to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 3 [frame 21.179]Regarding shoddy writing in the "western field;" wants Sandoz to contribute to an
anthology of "good" western fiction; a list of other authors to appear in the
anthology; Crazy Horse.
Item Mari Sandoz to Donald Adams, New York Times Book
Review, 1954, Jan. 4 [frame 21.180]Response to Adam's letter of January 2, 1954.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joe Koller, 1954, Jan. 4 [frame 21.182-183]Regarding the Two Sitting Bulls; old Camp Robinson region; Crazy Horse photograph;
Ricker Collection; Ph.D.'s as writers.
Item Bess Streeter Aldrich to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 7 [frame 21.190]Regarding Mari Sandoz on a radio interview; the "Lantern" book; Aldrich's son,
Bob.
Item Ed Aswell, McGraw-Hill to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 7 [frame 21.191]Regarding second printing of Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mrs. Rodolphe Petter to ?, 1954, Jan. 8 [frame 21.194]Regarding Chinquilla, a Cheyenne girl rasied by white parents, later adopted by the
Blackhorse family at Tongue River Reservation.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis, McIntosh & Otis, 1954, Jan. 10 [frame 21.199]Regarding "short pieces;" Kansas Nebraska Territorial Centennial celebration; Life magazine article Sandoz wants to write.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Walters, 1954, Jan. 10 [frame 21.200-202]Letter and a Sandoz review of The Blue Chip.
Item Jack Schafer to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 10 [frame 21.203]Regarding information on the forthcoming anthology of western writing Schafer is
editing.
Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 12 [frame 21.206-208]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Bodmer paintings.
Item Mari Sandoz to Phil R. Gordon, 1954, Jan. 12 [frame 21.209-210]Regarding Gordon's grandfather, David Stewart Gordon, military commander in the West;
The Bozeman Trail; The Fighting
Cheyennes; Red Cloud's Folk; military
engagements in the West, 1870s.
Item Kathryn Duerfeldt to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 13 [frame 21.211-212]Regarding a newspaper article "Many Indian Children Out of School: Whose
Responsibility", by Katheryn Duerfeldt; Gordon, Nebraska.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dr. Leermacher, 1954, Jan. 14 [frame 21.216]Regarding Windlass Hill, Nebraska.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bess Streeter Aldrich, 1954, Jan. 15 [frame 21.227]Regarding propaganda about Indians; Aldrich's son Bob.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith, 1954, Jan. 15 [frame 21.228]Regarding review of Cheyenne Autumn; Sandoz prefers
Crazy Horse; research and note cards; common friends
and acquaintances; the "Indian Bill" of 1953.
Item Mari Sandoz to Cleo Warner, 1954, Jan. 15 [frame 21.231]Regarding Slogum House; Cheyenne
Autumn; Howard Fast plagarism controversy; "The Altgeld biography;" Warner's
family.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dora Wright, 1954, Jan. 15 [frame 21.232]Regarding Betty Cass letter of December 1, 1953; Father Marion of Saint Labre
Mission; Indian education; conditions at Northern Cheyenne Reservation; John Collier;
hospital at Tongue River Reservation; Termination bill of 1953; Menominees of
Wisconsin; protecting Indian resources; Sandoz's article for the International News
Service about the Association on American Indian Affairs.
Item Bernardine Kielty, Book of the Month to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 18 [frame 21.237]Regarding Howard Fast plagiarism controversy.
Item Oliver W. Holmes, National Archives & Records Service to Mari
Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 19 [frame 21.241]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn.
Item D.H. Stroud, Jr. to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 19 [frame 21.242-243]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; an 1880 Mulvaney painting,
"Custer's Last Fight;" Stroud wants to donate this to be preserved for the "benefit of
the Indian people;" Hollywood and the stereotyping of Indians in films.
Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 20 [frame 21.246-249]Regarding Nebraska Territorial Celebration; Haye's health problems; common friends
and acquaintances.
Item Adolph Kazlanskas to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 20 [frame 21.250-251]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Cheyenne photographs in
Schmitt and Brown's Fighting Indians of the West.
Item F.H. Sinclair, Neckyoke Jones to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 21 [frame 21.259-261]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Julia Wild Hog; clothing
drive for Northern Cheyennes; monetary contributions for Northern Cheyennes;
Reservation Superintendent Carl Pearson finds old letters from the 1880s at the
Agency; All American Indian Days in Sheridan, Wyoming; writers and artists who visit
Sheridan.
Item Mari Sandoz to Adolph Kazlanskas, 1954, Jan. 22 [frame 21.263-264]Regarding Little Wolf photograph mis-labeled in Schmitt and Brown; other
misidentified photographs of Indians; suspicion of the camera; photographs of Crazy
Horse; situation of "present-day" Indians.
Item Brummett Echohawk to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 24 [frame 21.268]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; The
Fighting Norths and The Pawnee Scouts.
Item Mari Sandoz to James C. Olson, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1954, Jan. 24 [frame 21.271]Regarding Vice Admiral Leslie Stevens, a Nebraskan; Territorial celebration in
Nebraska; maps of the panhandle region of Nebraska.
Item Joe Koller to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 25 [frame 21.275-276]Regarding "The Two Sitting Bulls;" "Doc" Middleton.
Item Mari Sandoz to Oliver W. Holmes, National Archives and Records
Service, 1954, Jan. 25 [frame 21.278]Regarding research for the Cheyenne Autumn book; Sandoz
discusses her research methods.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bernardine Kielty, 1954, Jan. 25 [frame 21.279]Regarding Howard Fast controversy; Cheyenne Autumn
review.
Item Mari Sandoz to Sonia Levinthal, 1954, Jan. 25 [frame 21.280-282]Carbon copy of letter to Bernardine Kielty; also a copy of the review by Kielty;
Information regarding Sandoz's Cheyenne Autumn and Howard
Fast's The Last Frontier. This is evidently an article on
Howard Fast's controversial writing tactics. The article is incomplete, paper torn.
K.L.
Item Phil K. Gordon to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 26 [frame 21.283-285]Regarding Gordon's grandfather, General David Stewart Gordon, a frontier military
commander.
Item Marvin Borowsky to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Jan. 28 [frame 21.292]Regarding five dollar award for Buffalo Hunters.
Item Mari Sandoz to Rose Marie Krehbiel, 8th grade student, 1954, Jan. 29 [frame 21.296]Regarding Crazy Horse; Cheyenne
Autumn; Old Jules; arrangement in Crazy Horse; revisions in Buffalo
Hunters.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis, 1954, Jan. 30 [frame 21.303]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Buffalo
Hunters; "a book on cattle;" "The Lost School Bus;" Crazy Horse and Old Jules.
Item Mari Sandoz to Phil K. Gordon, 1954, Feb. 1 [frame 21.313-314]Regarding frontier military personnel; Fetterman's command; Captain Ten Eyck; General
David S. Gordon; Bill Cody; Crook's campaign; Sidney-Black Hills trail; the Montana
Volunteers; "Bill Drannan's book."
Item Mari Sandoz to Joe Koller, 1954, Feb. 1 [frame 21.315]Regarding Doc Middleton; sources on Middleton.
Item Mari Sandoz to Sonia Levinthal, 1954, Feb. 1 [frame 21.316]Regarding reviews of Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to D.H. Stroud, 1954, Feb. 1 [frame 21.318-319]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; other books about the West;
Ziolkowski; painting to be donated; Sioux and Cheyenne burial ground; Bear Butte
sacred to the Cheyennes; Hollywood and Indian stereotyping in films; Sandoz's work on
behalf of Native American people; termination on the reservations.
Item Matt Herold to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 2 [frame 21.325]Regarding Nebraskan Alumni Charter Day Dinner in New York City; Roscoe Pound.
Item John E. Parsons to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 2 [frame 21.327]Regarding buffalo hunting; secret service.
Item Mari Sandoz to John E. Parsons, 1954, Feb. 2 [frame 21.328-329]Regarding Chief Flying Hawk's Tales by M.I. McCreight;
weapons on the frontier; Touch the Clouds; photos of Indians with guns; Piah; giving
gifts to the Indians; blankets and clothing; identifying photographs of Indians; Crazy
Horse's gun.
Item Harold Mantell to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 5 [frame 21.342-343]Regarding Sandoz's article about Northern Cheyennes pulled from the International
News Service; same article to be made available elsewhere; List of Termination Bill
hearings and dates.
Item Mari Sandoz to John E. Parsons, 1954, Feb. 5 [frame 21.348-349]Regarding buffalo hunting guns; Winchesters; sources on buffalo guns.
Item John Coker to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 8 [frame 21.352-353]Regarding Mary J. English manuscript; Arapaho adoption ceremony; photographs of the
"proceedings."
Item John E. Parsons to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 8 [frame 21.355]Regarding guns on the frontier.
Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Mantell, 1954, Feb. 8 [frame 21.356]Regarding Sandoz's article for International News Service/Northern Cheyennes.
Item Rufus Wallowing to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 8 [frame 21.357]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; suggest a sequel to Cheyenne Autumn; aftermath of Little Big Horn fight; Sweet
Woman; Nellie Black Wolf.
Item Phil K. Gordon to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 9 [frame 21.358]Regarding General David S. Gordon.
Item Bess Streeter Aldrich to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 10 [frame 21.362]Regarding Quill and its members; Aldrich's son, Bob.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot, 1954, Feb. 10 [frame 21.364]Regarding Buffalo Hunters.
Item Vice Admiral Leslie Stevens to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 10 [frame 21.365-366]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Steven's father.
Item Douglas T. Barker to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 11 [frame 21.367]Regarding Barker's reaction to Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to Rufus Wallowing, 1954, Feb. 12 [frame 21.373]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Sandoz suggests Wallowing
write about the Cheyenne; tells how she wrote Old
Jules.
Item Mari Sandoz to James Waters, 1954, Feb. 12 [frame 21.374-376]Regarding Crazy Horse; photographs of Crazy Horse;
misidentified Indian photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Phil K. Gordon, 1954, Feb. 13 [frame 21.378]Regarding Gordon's father, P.K. Gordon; Fort Phil Kearny; "Gunsmoke" radio show.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dudley White, 1954, Feb. 13 [frame 21.380]Regarding story of Chinquilla; people passing themselves off as Indians; claiming
Indian identity.
Item Mari Sandoz to Douglas Barker, 1954, Feb. 16 [frame 21.385]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; interest in American Indians;
situations of many of Indians on reservations; termination policy of U.S.
Government.
Item Mari Sandoz to Belle Rosenbaum, 1954, Feb. 16 [frame 21.386-388]Regarding Sandoz's review of Home Below Hell's Canyon by
Grace Jordan. Review included.
Item Melvin Van den Bark to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 17 [frame 21.393]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; news from Norman,
Oklahoma.
Item James Water to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 17 [frame 21.395]Regarding comparing Plains Indian leaders.
Item Dudley White to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 18 [frame 21.398]Regarding "Chinquilla, Cheyenne Matron."
Item Mari Sandoz to James Waters, 1954, Feb. 22 [frame 21.404-405]Regarding Sioux chieftanships; sources on Lakota society and customs; Cheyenne
leadership; Comanche leader Quanah Parker; Washakie; Chief Joseph.
Item F.H. Sinclair, Neckyoke Jones to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Feb. 22 [frame 21.406-407]Regarding Julia Wild Hog; All American Indian Days; John Stands in Timber; Crazy Dog
society among the Cheyennes; plans for All American Indian Days, guests and
events.
Item Mary Squire Abbot to Walter Frese, 1954, Feb. 23 [frame 21.408]Regarding Old Jules
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis and Mary Abbot, 1954, Feb. 24 [frame 21.415]Regarding Paul Hoffman; "The Lost School Bus."
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1954, Feb. 25 [frame 21.419-420]Regarding The Snowstorm. This will become Winter Thunder.
Item Mari Sandoz to ?, 1954, Feb. 25 [frame 21.421-422]Regarding information on Natives of North America by
Chinquilla. Mentions information taken from Dudley White letter of February 18,
1954.
Item Mary Squire Abbot, McIntosh & Otis, 1954, Feb. 26 [frame 21.424]Regarding Paul Hoffman to take "The Lost School Bus" for Westminister Press. This
will become Winter Thunder.
Item Mari Sandoz to John Coker, 1954, Feb. 26 [frame 21.429]Regarding photographs of Arapaho adoption ceremony; Mrs. English's manuscript.
Item Mari Sandoz to F.H. Sinclair, Neckyoke Jones, 1954, Feb. 26 [frame 21.431-432]Regarding All American Indian Days in Sheridan, Wyoming; Julia Wild Hog; Cheyenne
dances; John Stands in Timber; Dog Soldier society; Crazy Dog society
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot, 1954, Feb. 28 [frame 21.436]Regarding "The Lost School Bus;" Old Jules.
Item Mari Sandoz to Don Ward, Westerner's Brand
Book, 1954, Feb. 28 [frame 21.437]Regarding "Beckwith piece by G.E. Ed Lemmon of South Dakota; Custer; Germaine
captivity story.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charles G. Chase, 1954, Mar. 1 [frame 21.443-444]Regarding Bent's fort; George Bent's letters; Charley Bent.
Item Mari Sandoz to J.W. McMullen, 1954, Mar. 1 [frame 21.445]Regarding McMullen's trip to the West; historic sites; Crazy Horse's burial; Sioux
names for the months of years.
Item F.H. Sinclair, Neckyoke Jones to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 4 [frame 21.454-456]Regarding the Westerners; David Blackhoop of Standing Rock Reservation; a film of
Sitting Bull's life; "Dog Society;" Northern Cheyennes to attend All American Indian
Days; Sinclair's adopted Yanktonais relative.
Item Mari Sandoz to Marguerite Young, 1954, Mar. 5 [frame 21.457]Regarding Ray West; Cheyenne Autumn; Arthur Wang; Jean
Evans; "McCarthy business."
Item Sandoz review, 1954, Mar. 6 [frame 21.458-460]Sandoz's review of In the Days of Jeremiah by R.C.
Pirzer. This is for Westminister Press. Carbon of this letter is on Frames
473-475.
Item Hazel Norris Robertson to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 8 [frame 21.468]Regarding Woman's National Democratic Club; book donation.
Item Mary Abbot, McIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 9 [frame 21.479]Regarding "The Lost School Bus" contracts from Paul Hoffman.
Item Mari Sandoz to Adolph Kazlanskas, 1954, Mar. 9 [frame 21.485-486]Regarding labelling Indian photographs; Crazy in the Lodge; events in Lakota country,
1870s; Canadian Indian "fashion;" Crazy Horse.
Item Henry Alsberg, Hastings House to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 11 [frame 21.494]Regarding Buffalo Hunters ready to print; past
suggestions.
Item Mari Sandoz to Barry Gray, radio host?, 1954, Mar. 12 [frame 21.500]Regarding The Tom-Walker.
Item Mari Sandoz to Allen Williams, 1954, Mar. 13 [frame 21.501]Regarding Williams family history; frontier military personnel.
Item Mari Sandoz to Henry Alsberg, Hastings House, 1954, Mar. 14 [frame 21.502]Regarding The Buffalo Hunters; "writing books to order;"
Sandoz discusses her "violent reactions" to editorial suggestions.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1954, Mar. 14 [frame 21.503]Regarding The Lost School Bus.
Item Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 14 [frame 21.506-508]Regarding life in Lincoln, Nebraska; Nebraska Capitol; Hartley Alexander, Goodhue,
Lawrie, Meiere; Stepanek almost arrested; keeping journals; John Neihardt; Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Dr. P. Gehring to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 15 [frame 21.509]Regarding George Washington Memorial Library in Stuttgart, Germany; Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Mari Sandoz to David Blackhoop, 1954, Mar. 15 [frame 21.511]Regarding film about the life of Sitting Bull; Public Law 280.
Item Mari Sandoz to W.R. Frank Productions, 1954, Mar. 15 [frame 21.512]Regarding film about the life of Sitting Bull; "shocking misuse of our history;"
against "falsified...background."
Item Jake Herman to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 18 [frame 21.516]Regarding film about the life of Sitting Bull.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dudley White, 1954, Mar. 18 [frame 21.517]Regarding Chinquilla's booklets; Sandoz doubts this woman is who she claims to be,
Cheyenne; a new booklet by Chinquilla, mesmerist show.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. H.E. Chrisman, 1954, Mar. 19 [frame 21.521-522]Regarding Chrisman family; writing of frontier times; relatives finding one another;
Sioux girl thrown from a car in Chadron, Nebraska; friends and acquaintances.
Item Marie Mengers to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 20 [frame 21.525-527]Regarding M.L.A. Conference of 1954; Mamie Meredith; Louise Pound; Olivia Pound;
poets; writing of Menger's doctor, Dr. Adams?; small-town doctors.
Item Frank E. Sibrava to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 21 [frame 21.529-530]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; photograph of a stone carving
("Camp Cloud's Peak") found in Wyoming; Colonel E.L. Nye; possibly carved by someone
with Jim Bridger, or General Crook in 1876.
Item H.S. Mauck to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 22 [frame 21.534-537]Regarding Mauck born at Fort Concho, Texas in 1871; forts the family was stationed
in; Mauck's father; Fred Grant and John M. Walton; writing of American Indians.
Item Mari Sandoz to Tom Ferril, 1954, Mar. 22 [frame 21.539]Regarding writing of Buffalo Bill Cody for the Westerners Brand
Book.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph Balmer, 1954, Mar. 23 [frame 21.544]Regarding answering neglected mail; photographs of Crazy Horse; Prince Maximilian
collection of art; Westerners Brand Book application.
Item Mari Sandoz to Denia Fitzgerald, 1954, Mar. 24 [frame 21.551]Regarding Indian clippings about Sitting Bull's bones; scalping was an English
invention; Julesburg, Colorado; the Indian Bill before Congress.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dorothy McIlhatton, Westminister Press, 1954, Mar. 25 [frame 21.559]Regarding Sandoz's birthdate.
Item Mari Sandoz to Frank E. Sibrava, 1954, Mar. 25 [frame 21.561-562]Regarding photographs of the Cloud Peak camp stone; Frank Grouard, Bat Pourier;
sources on Crook's campaign of 1876; Jim Bridger; Ute John; other names carved in the
stone.
Item Mary Abbot, McIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 26 [frame 21.564]Regarding Walter Frese; a "cattle" book; Hastings House special promotion.
Item David Blackhoop to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 26 [frame 21.565]Regarding Public Law 280; the Sitting Bull movie.
Item Mary Averett Seelye to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 26 [frame 21.566]Regarding A.A.U.W. Writing Project contest.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Kenneth Mygatt, Emmie Mygatt, 1954, Mar. 27 [frame 21.567]Regarding Crazy Horse; news of the Northern
Cheyennes.
Item Mari Sandoz to Post Office Inspector, 1954, Mar. 29 [frame 21.584]Regarding mail delays.
Item Mari Sandoz to Admiral Leslie C. Stevens, 1954, Mar. 29 [frame 21.585]Regarding Russian Assignment; Steven's father, a circuit
preacher.
Item Mari Sandoz to Eleanor Swayne, 1954, Mar. 29 [frame 21.586]Regarding New York School of Writing using Sandoz's name to advertise.
Item Mari Sandoz to William F. Imrie, 1954, Mar. 30 [frame 21.588]Regarding Plains Indians; matrilineal nature of Plains tribes; wearing apparel and
designs of Plains Indians; hairstyles of the warriors at Little Big Horn; sources on
these topics.
Item Mari Sandoz to H.S. Mauck, 1954, Mar. 30 [frame 21.590]Regarding Mauck's father; frontier military information; Little Chief's band; Plains
Wars of 1860s and 1870s; Crook's protests about Indian treatment.
Item Frank Sibrava to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Mar. 31 [frame 21.593-595]Regarding Cloud Peak camp stone; Sibrava's business; Colonel Nye. Photograph of a
sign for Waconda Spring, Kansas.
Item Robert Smith to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 1 [frame 21.598]Regarding the New York School of Writing; Mr. Fierst.
Item Brummett Echohawk to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 2 [frame 21.599]Regarding The Fighting Norths and Pawnee Scouts.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Averett Seelye, 1954, Apr. 4 [frame 21.605-617]Regarding Sandoz's decision on the A.A.U.W. Writing Project Contest winners.
Criticisms of A.A.U.W. short stories submitted.
Item James C. Olson, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 8 [frame 21.626-627]Regarding Nebraska Territorial Centennial; tape recordings of Nebraska literature
Item Mari Sandoz to Brummett Echohawk, 1954, Apr. 10 [frame 21.630]Regarding "The Man Who Scratched Himself;" humor; George Hyde; Echohawk's
writing.
Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Mantell, 1954, Apr. 10 [frame 21.633]Regarding Cheyenne School at Lame Deer, Montana.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Middleton, 1954, Apr. 10 [frame 21.634]Regarding Sandoz not returning to University of Wisconsin for summer of 1954.
Item Mari Sandoz to Frank Sibrava, 1954, Apr. 10 [frame 21.635]Regarding Arapahos and Cheyennes ceded territory in 1861; land rights; Kappler's
Indian Treaties; Mari's cabin at Estes, Colorado;
Custer's Cheyenne son.
Item Mari Sandoz to Roscoe C. South, 1954, Apr. 10 [frame 21.636]Regarding survivor stories of the Little Big Horn fight; author Will Henry.
Item Mari Sandoz to Melvin Van den Bark, 1954, Apr. 10 [frame 21.637]Regarding Sandoz relates what "life in New York City" has been like lately; Yale rare
book library visit; Bodenheim killing; lunch with J. Frank Dobie.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Aswell, 1954, Apr. 11 [frame 21.642]Regarding new school for Northern Cheyennes at Lame Deer, Montana.
Item Frank Stuerm, American Society for Friendship with Switzerland to Mari
Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 12 [frame 21.648]Regarding Sandoz joins; Appenzell folk songs, Swiss.
Item Ray Vickers to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 13 [frame 21.650-652]Regarding Vicker's writing; education; reading material.
Item Grace Jordan to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 14 [frame 21.660]Regarding Sandoz's review of Jordan's Home Below Hell's
Canyon.
Item Elizabeth Middleton to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 14 [frame 21.661]Regarding Sandoz's not returning to the University of Wisconsin for the Writers'
Institute in 1954.
Item Mari Sandoz to Archie Hanna, 1954, Apr. 14 [frame 21.663]Regarding Sandoz's recent visit to Yale library's rare book collection;
Raynolds-Maynadier map; Yellowstone region Schonborn maps.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dorothy Paul, 1954, Apr. 16 [frame 21.666]Regarding Sandoz to come through Topeka, Kansas; Sandoz to go to Austin, Texas.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Middleton, 1954, Apr. 17 [frame 21.667]Regarding Middleton's writing; Sandoz's letter of April 10, 1954.
Item Mari Sandoz to James C. Olson, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1954, Apr. 17 [frame 21.668]Regarding tape recordings of Nebraska authors; Old
Jules; Winter Thunder.
Item Mari Sandoz to Carl L. Pearson, 1954, Apr. 17 [frame 21.669]Regarding Northern Cheyennes at Lame Deer, Montana; new school at Lame Deer.
Item Mari Sandoz to Jerome Peltier, 1954, Apr. 17 [frame 21.670]Regarding Sandoz's Trans-Missouri series; Sandoz's novels; Brill's Conquest of the Southern Plains.
Item Mari Sandoz to H.D. Wimer, 1954, Apr. 17 [frame 21.674]Regarding Yellow Hand; Germaine family.
Item E.S. Sutton to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 17 [frame 21.675]Regarding Yellow Swallow, purported to be Custer's son; Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Dick Williams, Sturgis Chamber of Commerce to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 17 [frame 21.676-678]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Northern Cheyennes and the
Sacred Arrows; Bear Butte in the Black Hills; John Stands in Timber; photographs.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1954, Apr. 18 [frame 21.679]Regarding Sandoz recalls Easter mornings in the Sandhills; Monsoon Quarter.
Item Archie Hanna, Yale University Library to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 19 [frame 21.680]Regarding Sandoz's recent visit to Yale; Raynolds; Schonborn; J.D. Hutton.
Item Louis Lightner to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 19 [frame 21.681-682]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Roscoe South to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 19 [frame 21.687]Regarding South's visit to the Crow Reservation
Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 20 [frame 21.688]Regarding publicity for Winter Thunder.
Item Louis Ackerman to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 21 [frame 21.692]Regarding Sandoz to be honorary member of the Nebraska Writer's Guild.
Item John Barsotti to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 21 [frame 21.694]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; personalities in the
West.
Item Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 22 [frame 21.696-697]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Will Robinson; Indian
photographs; Karl Bodmer Collection; Westerner's Brand books; Balmer's daughter.
Item Priscilla A. Johnson to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 22 [frame 21.699]Regarding Johnson's short story for the A.A.U.W. Writer's Project Contest. This one
won.
Item Oliver B. Warren to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 22 [frame 21.700-701]Regarding Warren finds a copy of Crazy Horse in Boston,
Massachusetts for $7.50.
Item Jean Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 25 [frame 21.704-706]Regarding Hoffman's desire to write; common friends and relatives.
Item Mari Sandoz to Priscilla Johnson, 1954, Apr. 26 [frame 21.709]Regarding Johnson's letter of April 22, 1954.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.S. Sutton, 1954, Apr. 27 [frame 21.714-715]Regarding "Custer's Indian son;" Katie Big Head; Monaseetah's daughter;McGillycudy,
Agent; reviews of Cheyenne Autumn.
Item "Werkie" William Henry Werkmeister to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 27 [frame 21.718]Regarding Sandoz's Indian writings; University of Southern California; Lucyle, his
wife.
Item Mari Sandoz to John Barsotti, 1954, Apr. 28 [frame 21.724]Regarding Bill Cantrell or Quantrell; Old Cheyenne Woman; Little Finger Nail.
Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1954, Apr. 28 [frame 21.725]Regarding Mari's tour of Westminster publishers; a book about "Elk River;" Horsecatcher; tape recording of Old
Jules.
Item Mari Sandoz to Judge Louis Lightner, 1954, Apr. 28 [frame 21.728]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Custer's Seventh Cavalry;
Buffalo Hunters.
Item Fred Cassidy to Mari Sandoz, 1954, Apr. 29 [frame 21.730-731]Regarding news from University of Wisconsin; Cheyenne
Autumn; English Language in Jamaica; Cassidy's summer plans.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dick Williams, Sturgis Chamber of Commerce, 1954, Apr. 29 [frame 21.733-734]Regarding photographs; Cheyennes at Bear Butte; Sacred Arrows; John Stands in
Timber.
Item Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 3 [frame 21.739-740]Regarding newspaper clipping, which is included, about Nebraska Commemorative
Stamps.
Item Elizabeth Lawrence, Harper & Brothers to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 3 [frame 21.743]Regarding Higher Than the Sky.
Item Carl H. Parlasca to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 4 [frame 21.745]Regarding Sandoz's nonfiction works; John Anderson, storekeeper at Rosebud
Reservation; Boy Scouts of America Indian Pageant, "The Song of Hiawatha."
Item Hal Kanter to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 9 [frame 21.756]Regarding screenplay for Miss Morissa.
Item Mari Sandoz to Irata Van Doren, New York Hearld
Tribune, 1954, May 10 [frame 21.759-761]Regarding Sandoz's book review of Nothing but Prairie and
Sky by Bruce Siberts and Wyman Walker. Copy of review included
Item Mari Sandoz to Hal Kanter, 1954, May 12 [frame 21.768]Regarding movie rights to Miss Morissa.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ted Nash, 1954, May 13 [frame 21.771]Regarding Miss Morissa.
Item Edmund Ted Nash, McGraw-Hill to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 14 [frame 21.773]Regarding Miss Morissa; Nash to leave publishing.
Item Hal Kanter, Paramount Pictures Corp. to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 18 [frame 21.781]Regarding Miss Morissa.
Item Mari Sandoz to Annie Laurie Williams, 1954, May 18 [frame 21.785-787]Regarding Sandoz's criticisms of the Old Jules script
for film; other Sandoz books being considered for films.
Item Mari Sandoz to Hal Kanter, 1954, May 19 [frame 21.790]Regarding Miss Morissa; Sandoz's publication
calendar
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Lawrence, 1954, May 19 [frame 21.791]Regarding Higher Than the Sky; "errors of date, name and
place;" Francis Cranmer Greenman.
Item Mary Abbot, McIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 21 [frame 21.795]Regarding "contract for the cattle book."
Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Fred H. Barmore, 1954, May 22 [frame 21.798]Regarding Sandoz's upcoming projects; "a really serious treadmill;" Sandoz's
schedule.
Item Mari Sandoz to Joan Hoffman, 1954, May 22 [frame 21.800]Regarding writing; education.
Item Mari Sandoz to Hal Kanter, 1954, May 22 [frame 21.801-802]Regarding Miss Morissa adapted for film; books vs. films
for storytelling.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky, 1954, May 22 [frame 21.804]Regarding Milofsky's writing; Sandoz's publishing schedule.
Item Mari Sandoz to Carl Parlasca, 1954, May 22 [frame 21.805]Regarding response to Parlasca's letter of May 4, 1954; Rosebud Agency in South
Dakota.
Item Mari Sandoz to Jack Schaefer, 1954, May 22 [frame 21.807]Regarding Schaefer's Out West; "The Girl in the
Humbert;" "Sandhill Sundays;" prairie fires.
Item Dudley White to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 24 [frame 21.815]Regarding snapshot of "Block House."
Item Hal Kanter to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 26 [frame 21.820-822]Regarding Miss Morissa film; adapting the book to a
screenplay.
Item Caroline Sauer, McIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 27 [frame 21.825-826]Regarding "cattle book;" "The Girl in the Humbert."
Item Mari Sandoz to Hal Kanter, 1954, May 28 [frame 21.828]Regarding Miss Morissa adaptation for film.
Item E.A. Brininstool to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 30 [frame 21.829-830]Regarding Hollywood to make film about Crazy Horse; Newspaper clipping about Crazy
Horse film.
Item H.D. Wimer to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May 30 [frame 21.832]Regarding Buffalo Hunters; Yellow Swallow, rumored to be
Custer's mixed blood son; photograph of Crazy Horse.
Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1954, May [frame 21.836]Regarding Sandoz's surgery; film on Crazy Horse; Buffalo
Hunters.
Item H.S. Mauck to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 1 [frame 21.839-844]Regarding Mauck family history, quite detailed.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Otis, 1954, June 1 [frame 21.846]Regarding Sandoz to go to Memorial Hospital for surgery lump in her breast; Buffalo Hunters; film of Crazy Horse.
Item Mari Sandoz to "My Brothers and Sisters", Sandoz family, 1954, June 1 [frame 21.848]Regarding Sandoz's upcoming surgery; business notations; Sandoz's possessions.
Item Mari Sandoz to Annie Laurie Williams, 1954, June 1 [frame 21.849]Regarding Hal Kanter; film plans for Crazy Horse; Sandoz's surgery.
Item E.S. Sutton to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 1 [frame 21.850]Regarding Crazy Horse photograph; M.I. McCreight; Mrs. Ecoffy of Pine Ridge; Crazy
Horse's scalp shirt in Lincoln; digging at old battle sites; travelling to old battle
sites.
Item John Barsotti to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 2 [frame 21.855-858]Regarding Barsotti's connections to the West; Bill Cantrell; vigilantes; old weapons
of the West; cutting ice on the Missouri River.
Item Mari Sandoz to McGraw-Hill Books, 1954, June 2 [frame 21.859]Regarding Nebraska Centennial celebration; the "Centennial Car."
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot, McIntosh & Otis, 1954, June 4 [frame 21.860]Regarding Mrs. Roy Green's manuscript; Sandoz's upcoming hospital stay.
Item Mari Sandoz to Associated Hospital Service, 1954, June 4 [frame 21.861]Regarding Sandoz's medical insurance coverage; Sandoz's health record; upcoming
hospital stay.
Item Note, 1954, June 4 [frame 21.862]Handwritten note by Mari Sandoz about Blue Cross/Blue Shield's bad service.
Item Charles H. Wadsworth to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 4 [frame 21.863-868]Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Crazy
Horse; Wadworth's childhood on Shoshoni Reservation at Fort Washakie; sign
language; Little Wolf of the Northern Cheyennes; Chief Washakie of the Shoshonis and
his sons; Wadsworth's parents; other personalities of the West that Wadsworth
knew.
Item Emmie Mygatt to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 5 [frame 21.873-876]Regarding news from Lame Deer, Montana; John Stands in Timber; Rufus Wallowing;
Native weapons; Reservation road washed out.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.A. Brininstool, 1954, June 5 [frame 21.878]Regarding Crazy Horse movie to star Victor Mature; film company rumored to be using
Sandoz's Crazy Horse as background material.
Item Mari Sandoz to Rose Havlik, 1954, June 5 [frame 21.881]Regarding Chadron clippings; lawlessness in New York City; Sandoz laments television
and its influence.
Item Mari Sandoz to H.S. Mauck, 1954, June 5 [frame 21.884]Regarding Mauck family history; Sandoz recalls seeing Mauck's name in the A.G.O.
records and War records of 1870s; Mackenzie campaigns; Indian Wars of 1870s.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.S. Sutton, 1954, June 5 [frame 21.887-888]Regarding purported Crazy Horse photographs; Standing Bear of the Poncas; Julius
Meyer; the Crazy Horse scalp shirt.
Item Mari Sandoz to H.D. Wimer, 1954, June 5 [frame 21.892]Regarding Buffalo Hunters; Custer's rumored son; Crazy
Horse photograph is really Standing Bear of the Poncas.
Item E.S. Sutton to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 7 [frame 21.894]Regarding Crazy Horse picture; Crazy Horse shirt; "phony" scalps; debunking myths of
the West.
Item Mari Sandoz to Peter Decker, 1954, June 8 [frame 21.900]Regarding notes about W.D. Wimer, E.S. Sutton, and Mr. Stratton, a group of men who
examine historical sites; perhaps for an item in Westerner's
Brand Book.
Item William Kelleher to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 8 [frame 21.901]Regarding a letter about Sandoz from Eugene L. Price, editor of the Beacon.
Item Russ Langford to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 9 [frame 21.903]Regarding Cheyenne sacred arrows.
Item Russell Neale, Hastings House to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 9 [frame 21.904]Regarding Nebraska Territory Centennial Celebration; Buffalo
Hunters; publicity for Buffalo Hunters.
Item James C. Olson, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 9 [frame 21.905]Regarding tape recording of Old Jules; travelling museum.
Item Mari Sandoz to Emmie Mygatt, 1954, June 9 [frame 21.906]Regarding news of the Northern Cheyennes; Indian weapons; Crooked Lances of the Elk
Society; indexes of Cheyenne families; military societies of the Cheyenne; Cheyenne
individuals.
Item H.D. Wimer to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 9 [frame 21.907-908]Regarding greetings from Crow Agency, Montana.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.S. Sutton, 1954, June 11 [frame 21.911-912]Regarding Crazy Horse's "scalp" shirt; one at Nebraska State Historical Society might
be "careful copy;" scalp-taking as a practice among the Sioux.
Item Archie & Pat Teater to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 11 [frame 21.916]Regarding an article about Archie Teater; Teater's art and painting; Teater's new
home; Cheyenne Autumn.
Item Dr. Lawrence Frost to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 13 [frame 21.920]Regarding Custer's mixed blood son.
Item Mari Sandoz to Jimmie Nicolini, 1954, June 13 [frame 21.921]Regarding Sandoz to enter hospital.
Item Dudley Uehett to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 14 [frame 21.925]Regarding newspaper article, "Tale of Chief Little Wolf Read Like Exciting Fiction."
Sandoz has printed LIES! across the article. [K.L.]
Item Benn Hall to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 16 [frame 21.926]Regarding publicity for Buffalo Hunters.
Item Associated Hospital Service of New York, D.M. Morrill to Mari
Sandoz, 1954, June 16 [frame 21.927]Regarding insurance information for Sandoz.
Item E.S. Sutton to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 17 [frame 21.930-931]Regarding Crazy Horse scalp shirt; Mr. Frost of the Custer museum; expedition to
Wyoming historical sites the group has visited; metal detecting.
Item Walker D. Wyman to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 19 [frame 21.933]Regarding Nothing But Prairie & Sky.
Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 21 [frame 21.934-935]Regarding death of Jessie Red Hawk; news from University of Nebraska, Lincoln; L.C.
Wimberly.
Item Muriel, nurse's aide to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 22 [frame 21.938]Regarding Sandoz's contribution for Christmas Party.
Item Mel Kritzler to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 23 [frame 21.940-945]Regarding Paris, France; writing; travelling in Europe; Germany; Switzerland.
Item Mary Abbot, McIntosh & Otis to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 24 [frame 21.948]Regarding bibliography for Buffalo Hunters.
Item Hal Kanter to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 24 [frame 21.949-950]Regarding film of Miss Morissa; Crazy Horse used as basis for the movie "Chief Crazy Horse;" possible
lawsuit; Rose Tattoo as motion picture.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot, McIntosh & Otis, 1954, June 25 [frame 21.950]Regarding bibliography for Buffalo Hunters; "fighting to
preserve the book;" Mari's criticisms of the final outcome on Buffalo Hunters; "rebuilding her reputation."
Item Mari Sandoz to Virginia Kirkus, 1954, June 25 [frame 21.951]Regarding Kirkus' review of the Buffalo Hunters.
Item Mari Sandoz to Annie Laurie Williams, 1954, June 29 [frame 21.955]Regarding Hal Kanter and Miss Morissa; Greer Garson and
Buddy Fogelson.
Item James Waters to Mari Sandoz, 1954, June 29 [frame 21.957]Regarding old gunfighters; Cheyenne Autumn.
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