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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materials.
Other Finding Aids: For a complete list of Sandoz materials available via microfilm, please
see the Mari Sandoz Collection, which provides access to
the microfilm indexing.Container List:
Box 23. Correspondence, 1959, Aug.-Dec. [Microfilm Reel MS00031]Item Martha Carpenter to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
4 [frame 31.21-23]"Cherry County, Nebraska, Cattle Fight" - a
portion of manuscript by Martha Carpenter.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. O.K.
Twiss, 1959, Aug.
4 [frame 31.24-25]Regarding Twiss genealogy; sources for tracking
down the Twiss name.
Item Charles Barrett to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
5 [frame 31.26-27]Regarding books; Custer battle; Crazy Horse
opera; Westerners.
Item Viginia Faulkner, University of Nebraska
Press to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
5 [frame 31.29-30]Regarding Charley O' Kieffe manuscript; other
University of Nebraska Press projects.
Item Margaret Payne to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
5 [frame 31.31-32]Regarding news from Audubon Camp of Connecticut;
research going on at Audubon camp.
Item Mari Sandoz to Clarkson
Potter, 1959, Aug.
5 [frame 31.33]Regarding Sandoz comments on Potter's writing,
A School of
Minnows.
Item Mari Sandoz to Robert Reynolds, American
Heritage, 1959, Aug.
6 [frame 31.34-36]Regarding Sandoz comments on Nancy Gay Case's
article "Up the Trail;" cattle drives of the late
1800s; Texas Jack.
Item Bruce Nicoll, University of Nebraska
Press to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
7 [frame 31.40]Regarding upcoming projects for University of
Nebraska Press; Allis diaries.
Item Eleanor Roether to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
7 [frame 31.41]Regarding The
Cattlemen query about the Foreword.
Item Don Ward to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
7 [frame 31.43-44]Regarding Western Writer's
Magazine.
Item Viginia Handley to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
8 [frame 31.48-51]Regarding Miss
Morissa; Dr. Fix; life in the
Sandhills.
Item Eric Jacobsen to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
9 [frame 31.53]Regarding death of Ethel Jacobsen;
autobiographical article in North Dakota Historical Quarterly.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charles
Barrett, 1959, Aug.
9 [frame 31.54-55]Regarding Custer battle.
Item Mari Sandoz to Jerry Ryan, 1959, Aug.
10 [frame 31.58]Regarding Cheyenne
Autumn; writing about historical
topics.
Item John Myers to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
11 [frame 31.59]Regarding launching a Western Writer's magazine.
Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese, Hastings
House, 1959, Aug.
11 [frame 31.63]Regarding Don Ward is at Bantam Books.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll, University
of Nebraska Press, 1959, Aug.
11 [frame 31.65]Regarding Western History Collection at Yale
library; A Wounded Knee book; Bettelyoun
manuscript.
Item Charles Barrett to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
12 [frame 31.66-67]Regarding Custer battle field; Barrett's
collection; Model T Fords; the Village in New
York.
Item Herb Potter, University of Nebraska
Foundation to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
13 [frame 31.69-73]Regarding Sandoz's contributions.
Item Mari Sandoz to McIntosh & Otis
Accounting Dept, 1959, Aug.
13 [frame 31.74]Regarding Hostiles &
Friendlies royalty query.
Item Mari Sandoz to Margaret
Payne, 1959, Aug.
13 [frame 31.75-76]Regarding horseflies & greenheads;
Horseguards; country school-house games; Payne's
"Indian protests."
Item H.D. Wimer to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
13 [frame 31.78]Regarding Hostiles &
Friendlies; research in Western
Nebraska.
Item Jim Carr? to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
16 [frame 31.83-85]Regarding Fort Robinson visit.
Item Bruce Nicoll, University of Nebraska
Press to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
18 [frame 31.87]Regarding Hostiles &
Friendlies royalty payment to Sandoz.
Item Karen Petersen to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
18 [frame 31.91-92]Regarding historical query about North
Cheyennes.
Item Walter Frese, Hastings House to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
19 [frame 31.93]Regarding Don Ward, an associate editor at
Hastings.
Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Sauer, McIntosh
& Otis, 1959, Aug.
19 [frame 31.95]Regarding Miss
Morissa.
Item Caroline Sauer to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
20 [frame 31.97]Regarding Miss
Morissa.
Item Mari Sandoz to Edith Stickney, Nebraska
Library Association, 1959, Aug.
24 [frame 31.101]Regarding Sandoz's speaking schedule
problems.
Item Ruth Musick to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Aug.
27 [frame 31.103-104]Regarding Musick's writing projects; seeking
advice.
Item Harry Tummonds to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug. [frame 31.108]Article by Harry Tummonds, regarding "Hobby:
Hitching Post," from The
Rotarian, July 1959, about famous people
and their horses.
Item Harry Tummonds to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Aug. [frame 31.110]Article by Harry Tummonds, regarding "Ham
Antenna," from The Cleveland
Plain Dealer, about QSL cards.
Item Mari Sandoz to Karen
Petersen, 1959, Aug.
29 [frame 31.111]Regarding Dr. Daniel's letters and diaries;
Daniel's time at Red Cloud Agency; corruption at
Red Cloud Agency.
Item Mari Sandoz to Eleanor
Roether, 1959, Sept.
1 [frame 31.115]Regarding nutrition issues on the Great Plains;
high protein diet vs high carbohydrate diet.
Item Father Peter Powell to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Sept.
2 [frame 31.117]Regarding Powell's Cheyenne research.
Item Angus Carmeron, Knopf to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Sept.
3 [frame 31.119]Regarding Sandoz's "Beaver book."
Item Louise Christensen to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Sept.
3 [frame 31.120-121]Regarding writing of her Alaskan experiences as a
nurse.
Item Mari Sandoz to Clarkson Potter, Clarkson
Publisher, 1959, Sept.
9 [frame 31.123]Regarding Son of a Gamblin'
Man; editorial suggestions; revisions.
Item Father Peter Powell to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Sept.
12 [frame 31.126-127]Regarding Cheyenne research and ceremonies in
Montana and Oklahoma; Powell helps with Medicine
Hat ceremony; reviewing of the Arrows; death of
Stone Forehead; photos of Sacred Hat.
Item Mari Sandoz to Father Peter
Powell, 1959, Sept.
12 [frame 31.128-129]Regarding Stone Forehead, Arrow Keeper of the
Cheyennes; Cheyenne history in art; Mrs. Powers;
death of Stone Forehead.
Item Mari Sandoz to Angus Cameron,
Knopf, 1959, Sept.
13 [frame 31.130]Regarding the "Beaver Book" already under
contract; the "problem" with American novels and
editors; Hickok index.
Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese, Hastings
House, 1959, Sept.
13 [frame 31.131]Regarding Creightons of Nebraska; Creighton
University.
Item Mari Sandoz to Carl M. Reinert, President
of Creighton University, 1959, Sept.
13 [frame 31.134]Regarding Sandoz to receive award from Creighton
University.
Item Mari Sandoz to Richard Ketchum, American
Heritage, 1959, Sept.
14 [frame 31.137-138]Regarding promising writers in the "Indian
field", Alice Marriott, Robert Lowie, Philip
Drucker, Angie Debo, Edmund Collier, Mrs.
Freeman.
Item Mari Sandoz to Ruth Musick, 1959, Sept.
15 [frame 31.145]Regarding Musick's writing; Cap Pearce; getting
funding.
Item Mari Sandoz to Lewis Gannett, 1959, Sept.
19 [frame 31.156]Regarding writing of Indians; Oliver LaFarge's
illness.
Item Clarkson Potter to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Sept.
21 [frame 31.162]Regarding Son of a Gamblin'
Man; Sandoz's changes to the
manuscript.
Item Mari Sandoz to Clarkson
Potter, 1959, Sept.
29 [frame 31.180]Regarding Dr. Robert Gatewood; Son of a Gamblin' Man;
Cozad, Nebraska; Henri's painting.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mildred
Bennett, 1959, Oct.
1 [frame 31.183]Regarding Sandoz scheduled to give a talk at Red
Cloud, Nebraska; writers and writing.
Item Mari Sandoz to Austin
Jeffers, 1959, Oct.
3 [frame 31.189]Regarding Jeffers family in Montana; Jeffers
family in Texas.
Item Edward Kuhn, McGraw-Hill to Mary
Abbot?, 1959, Oct.
5 [frame 31.192]Regarding Miss
Morissa; control of rights to Miss Morissa.
Item Ruth Musick to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Oct.
8 [frame 31.201]Regarding ghost stories; writing.
Item LaVerne Madigan, Association on American
Indian Affairs to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Oct.
9 [frame 31.205]Regarding Omahas of Nebraska; a tribal
newspaper.
Item Caroline Sauer, McIntosh & Otis to
Mari Sandoz, 1959, Oct.
9 [frame 31.206]Regarding The Buffalo
Hunters contract with Spottiswoode.
Item Austin Jeffers to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Oct.
20 [frame 31.223-224]Regarding Jeffers family history.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot?, 1959, Oct.
21 [frame 31.227]Regarding Miss
Morissa rights, repints; women's issues
found in the book.
Item Moss Hart, The Author's League of America
to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Oct.
22 [frame 31.229-231-232]Regarding Writers Guild of America strike against
movie producers. List of Producers Writers Guild
opposes.
Item E.S. Sutton to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Oct.
23 [frame 31.236]Regarding Sandoz's recent visit; "Indian sites"
along the Sappa.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll, 1959, Oct.
25 [frame 31.238]Regarding University of Nebraska Press; someone
to write the "Wounded Knee" book; Sandoz doesn't
want to do the "Wounded Knee" book.
Item Mari Sandoz to Austin
Jeffers, 1959, Oct.
26 [frame 31.239]Regarding more on the Jeffer's family.
Item Mari Sandoz to Clarkson
Potter, 1959, Oct.
26 [frame 31.241]Regarding Publisher's
Weekly.
Item Bruce Nicoll, University of Nebraska
Press to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Oct.
27 [frame 31.242]Regarding the "Wounded Knee" book.
Item Terence Duren to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Oct.
28 [frame 31.244-245]Regarding art and painting; Governor Garber; news
from Lincoln.
Item Mari Sandoz to Anna Kostecki, 6th
grader, 1959, Oct.
28 [frame 31.246]Regarding The
Horsecatcher.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charles Walden, 6th
grader, 1959, Oct.
28 [frame 31.247]Regarding The
Horsecatcher; Sandoz's current projects;
the trip to Kansas with the Wimers and Suttons;
Wichita, Kansas.
Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Ray C.
Wiles, 1959, Oct.
29 [frame 31.252]Regarding writing in English; formal essay vs.
informal essay; creative writing.
Item Mari Sandoz to the E.S.
Suttons, 1959, Oct.
31 [frame 31.256]Regarding Sandoz's recent visit with the Suttons;
maps of the "Cheyenne country;" Cartographic
Records of Bureau of Indian Affairs; "special
lists."
Item Mari Sandoz to H.D. Wimer, 1959, Oct.
31 [frame 31.257]Regarding Sandoz's recent visit with Wimers;
photo of Dull Knife; Cheyennes at Fort Robinson;
maps and "Special Lists" available through
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Item Thomas Wright to Hastings
House, 1959, Nov.
3 [frame 31.268]Regarding Mari Sandoz research for Peabody
Library School.
Item Angus Cameron, Knopf to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Nov.
5 [frame 31.269]Regarding the "beaver book;" Cameron's friends
who know about beavers.
Item Mari Sandoz to Angus Cameron, 1959, Nov.
5 [frame 31.270]Regarding beavers' behavior in modern times.
Item Mari Sandoz to Arnold Cayser, 1959, Nov.
5 [frame 31.272]Regarding "64,000 Question" scandal; Cayser's
divorce?; writing.
Item Mari Sandoz to Thomas Wright, 1959, Nov.
6 [frame 31.282-283]Regarding Wright's research about Sandoz; Sandoz
tries to briefly explain her indexing system.
[Carbon].
Item Esther Henke, Oklahoma State Library to
Mari Sandoz, 1959, Nov.
10 [frame 31.291]Regarding first person material from Hunkpapa and
Oglalas.
Item Arthur Carmody to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Nov.
12 [frame 31.294-295]Regarding Bartlett Richards; cattlemen's
homesteading practices in Northwest and Southwest
Nebraska; accidental gunshot victim.
Item Thomas Wright to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Nov.
12 [frame 31.297]Regarding writing about Fort Robinson; Fred
Hackett's collection of Lakota artifacts in a
Chicago basement; a photograph purported to be
Crazy Horse.
Item Boyd Carter to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Nov.
13 [frame 31.299]Regarding Irvin M. Peithman's manuscript, Broken Peace Pipes; request
for Sandoz to "look this over."
Item Mari Sandoz to Macy's, 1959, Nov.
15 [frame 31.303]Regarding Sandoz angry about her television
set.
Item Mari Sandoz to Boyd Carter, 1959, Nov.
17 [frame 31.306]Regarding Peithman's manuscript; writing about
Indians.
Item Mari Sandoz to Nebraska State Historical
Society, 1959, Nov.
17 [frame 31.308]Regarding requests for Nebraska materials.
Item Mari Sandoz to Clarkson
Potter, 1959, Nov.
17 [frame 31.309]Regarding Son of a Gamblin'
Man; sales and orders for books.
Item Mari Sandoz to Theodore
Steinway, 1959, Nov.
19 [frame 31.313]Regarding a frontiersman with the initials
"J.S."
Item Mari Sandoz to Drid Williams, 1959, Nov.
19 [frame 31.314]Regarding Westerners meeting; Alvin Josephy.
Item Boyd Carter to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Nov.
21 [frame 31.316]Regarding Broken Peace
Pipes.
Item E.S. Sutton to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Nov.
22 [frame 31.317-318]Regarding illegal fencing in Nebraska; the "Dewey
Plan;" the Olives.
Item Charles W. Hurd to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Nov.
24 [frame 31.320-322]Regarding Hurd's research; Bent Brothers fort;
Sand Creek; Guggenheim family.
Item Mari Sandoz to Dean Warren
Bower, 1959, Nov.
24 [frame 31.325]Regarding importance of recording history
accurately.
Item Mari Sandoz to Charles
Barrett, 1959, Nov.
26 [frame 31.326]Regarding a walker from Maine on the Oregon
Trail.
Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Schmidt, 1959, Nov.
29 [frame 31.333-334]Regarding Indian children and boarding schools;
Indian education and the children.
Item Mari Sandoz to E.S. Sutton, 1959, Nov.
29 [frame 31.335]Regarding Billy Olive; Charles Hurd.
Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Nov. [frame 31.336-340]Regarding news from Lincoln; Hayes' hospital
stay.
Item Mari Sandoz to Thomas Wright, 1959, Dec.
1 [frame 31.347-348]Regarding an Oglala winter-count; photo purported
to be Crazy Horse; Mr. Hackett's Lakota artifact
collection; He Dog medicine bundle.
Item Hila Gilbert to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
2 [frame 31.349]Regarding Cheyenne
Autumn; Cheyenne art exhibit; hunger on the
Cheyenne reservation.
Item Bertha Randall to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
2 [frame 31.350]Regarding Cheyennes in Montana.
Item Bill Aeschbacher, Nebraska State
Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
4 [frame 31.355]Regarding Sandoz's index.
Item Charles Hurd to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
5 [frame 31.356]Regarding research on Guggenheims.
Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll, University
of Nebraska Press, 1959, Dec.
6 [frame 31.358]Regarding Recollections of
Captain L.H. North; Grinnell's Two Great Scouts; Mrs.
Grinnell; getting manuscripts reprinted for
University of Nebraska Press.
Item Mari Sandoz to Vigie
Vigilante, 1959, Dec.
6 [frame 31.360-361]Regarding Pat Hennessey's murder in Oklahoma.
Item Charles Barrett to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
12 [frame 31.371-372-374]Regarding Maine man who walked the Oregon trail;
situations on the reservations. Enclosed pamphlet
from St. Labre Indian School, Ashland,
Montana.
Item Clarkson N. Potter to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
14 [frame 31.379]Regarding page proof for Son of a Gamblin' Man.
Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese, 1959, Dec.
20 [frame 31.390]Regarding season's greetings and news of the
West; Old Jules maybe
sold to the movies.
Item Larry Tanner to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
21 [frame 31.395-396]Regarding news from Jerusalem.
Item Ed and Dollie Portwood to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
25 [frame 31.400]Regarding Christmas letter.
Item Charles Hurd to Mari Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
26 [frame 31.402]Regarding Guggenheim fellowship; drilling for
water in Arizona.
Item Charles Barrett to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
28 [frame 31.403-405]Regarding Barrett's letter to Senator Margaret
Chase Smith about the Northern Cheyennes.
Item Father Peter J. Powell to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Dec.
30 [frame 31.408-409]Regarding Powell's research among the Northern
Cheyennes; the opening of the Sacred Hat Bundle;
sources Powell needs about Stone Forehead and the
Sappa fight.
Item Eleanor Hinman to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Dec. [frame 31.421-423]Regarding Christmas greetings; news from
Nebraska.
Item Donald Beckman to Mari
Sandoz, 1959, Dec. [frame 31.433-436]Regarding Beckman family stories and
photographs.
Item Jo Frisbee to Mari Sandoz, 1959 [frame 31.454]Regarding Cather Memorial; Frisbee's mom "grew up
next door" to Willa Cather.
Item Austin Jeffers to Mari
Sandoz, 1959 [frame 31.461]Regarding Jeffers' family name; Jeffers' military
career.
Item Mari Sandoz to Margot
Liberty, 1959 [frame 31.467-472]Sandoz's notes regarding Margot Liberty and John
Stands in Timber's Sweet
Medicine: a History of the Cheyenne
Indians; comments and suggestions for
corrections.
Item Mamie Meredith to Mari
Sandoz, 1959 [frame 31.477-483]Regarding various topics and news from University
of Nebraska.
Item Mari Sandoz to Clarkson
Potter, 1959 [frame 31.499]Regarding front material for Son of a Gamblin' Man.
Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth
Ames, 1959 [frame 31.503]Regarding Robert Springer.
Item Mari Sandoz to Amy and
Nellie, 1959 [frame 31.505-507]Galley changes for Hostiles
and Friendlies.
Item , 1959 [frame 31.512]Sandoz's book promotion tour 1958? for The Cattlemen.
Item Charles Barrett to Mari
Sandoz, 1959 [frame 31.517]Senator Chase Smith's remarks in reply to Charles
Barrett's letter of December 28, 1959.
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