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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 see the Mari Sandoz Collection, which provides access to the microfilm indexing.Container List: Box 24. Correspondence, September 1960-June 1961 [Microfilm Reel MS00033]Item Mary G. Makras, Hastings House, to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 1 [reel 33.4]

Regarding Cheyenne Autumn plates

Item Mildred Earhart to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 3 [reel 33.8-10]

Regarding Son of a Gamblin' Man; Earhart's family history in Colorado

Item Mary J. Shipley to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. [reel 33.11-13]

Regarding Women's National Book Association; Constance Skinner Award

Item Mari Sandoz to Virginia Faulkner [University of Nebraska Press] 1960, Sept. 08 [reel 33.20]

Regarding Crazy Horse to become a Bison Book; errors to be rectified in the text

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] 1960, Sept. 10 [reel 33.25]

Regarding Crazy Horse as a Bison Book; Crazy Horse shirt; cover of the book

Item Charles Barrett to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 12 [reel 33.26-27]

Regarding Native American education; issues of Natives being represented in Congress; Bess Streeter Aldrich's A Lantern in Her Hand

Item Bernard Milofsky to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 16 [reel 33.32]

Regarding The Fiddlers Four

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] 1960, Sept. 16 [reel 33.33]

Regarding map in Crazy Horse

Item Ralph Ellsworth [University of Colorado Libraries] 1960, Sept. 19 [reel 33.36]

Regarding Sandoz's papers and correspondence

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. R.L. Duke 1960, Sept. 21 [reel 33.39]

Regarding The Cattlemen; Barbeque Campbell; XIT ranch; Texas research

Item Mari Sandoz to C.J. Sarvis 1960, Sept. 21 [reel 33.42]

Regarding Cozad stories; writing Robert Henri; Son of a Gamblin' Man

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] 1960, Sept. 22 [reel 33.43]

Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; Wright Morris

Item James F. Carr [Syracuse University] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 22 [reel 33.47-48]

Regarding letter to Lester G. Wells concerning Sandoz's contribution to Syracuse University; Son of a Gamblin' Man manuscript; Paul Hoffman papers

Item Clarkson N. Potter to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 23 [reel 33.49-51]

Regarding royalties from Son of a Gamblin' Man

Item Doris Kanter to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 25 [reel 33.52-54]

Regarding Sandoz's books; Miss Morissa as a failed movie script; family

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] 1960, Sept. 25 [reel 33.58]

Regarding royalty check from Clarkson Potter

Item Elizabeth Otis [McIntosh & Otis] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 27 [reel 33.60-62]

Regarding letter from Reader's Digest about "What the Sioux Taught Me"; suggestions for changes in the article; "individual responsibility"

Item Mary Squire Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 28 [reel 33.63]

Regarding Clarkson Potter royalty checks

Item Mari Sandoz to Jim Carr 1960, Sept. 29 [reel 33.65]

Regarding Sandoz wants the Reader's Digest article returned to her

Item Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Sept. 30 [reel 33.67]

Regarding Mrs. Bettelyoun; Anne E. Palmer diary

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] 1960, Sept. 30 [reel 33.68]

Regarding Potter contract

Item Mari Sandoz to Doris [Mrs. Hal] Kanter 1960, Sept. 30 [reel 33.70]

Regarding writing; movies; Elvis Presley should be a movie actor; Cozad

Item Mary Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Oct. 3 [reel 33.72]

Regarding Sandoz's present projects; future projects; "delivery" dates; royalties

Item Sandoz's reading notes 1960, Oct. 4 [reel 33.75-80]

Regarding It Taken a Tough Man: The Story of Print Oliver

Item Patricia Tarnawsky to Mari Sandoz 1960, Oct. 4 [reel 33.82]

Regarding Conrad Kohrs' manuscript; Kohrs mentioned in The Cattlemen ; getting the manuscript published

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hector [ Reader's Digest] 1960, Oct. 5 [reel 33.83-84]

Regarding "What the Sioux Taught Me" rejected; termination policy and House Resolution 1063; life on the Sioux reservations in 1960

Item Larry Koller [ The American Gun] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Oct. 6 [reel 33.86]

Regarding article on the personality of a buffalo hunter

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] 1960, Oct. 8 [reel 33.88]

Regarding Kohrs' material

Item Mari Sandoz to Patricia Tarnawsky 1960, Oct. 8 [reel 33.89]

Regarding Conrad Kohrs' memoirs; preserving the manuscript

Item James F. Carr to Lester G. Wells [Syracuse University] 1960, Oct. 11 [reel 33.04-97]

Regarding the Sandoz-Hoffman letters

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] 1960, Oct. 16 [reel 33.102]

Regarding Sandoz's complicated past summer; living conditions in New York City; publishers

Item M. Slade Kendrick to Mari Sandoz 1960, Oct. 21 [reel 33.110]

Regarding John G. Neihardt; publishers; writing

Item Mari Sandoz to Adin Baber 1960, Oct. 24 [reel 33.115]

Regarding Nancy Hanks; Tales of Pioneer Days; Who's Who in Nebraska; Wyoming Pioneer Ranches; Lone Star Man

Item "The Cousinry of Nancy Hanks" [reel 33.116] Item Mari Sandoz to H.D. Graham 1960, Oct. 24 [reel 33.117]

Regarding the Wilson knives mentioned in The Buffalo Hunters

Item Mari Sandoz to Dorothy Kelley 1960, Oct. 24 [reel 33.119]

Regarding bombs, murders in New York City

Item Mari Sandoz to M. Slade Kendrick 1960, Oct. 24 [reel 33.120]

Regarding John G. Neihardt; publishers

Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz 1960, Oct. 26 [reel 33.125-127]

Regarding news and reviews from Lincoln, Nebraska

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese [Hastings House] 1960, Oct. 26 [reel 33.128]

Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; sales and returns

Item H.D. Graham to Mari Sandoz 1960, Oct. 28 [reel 33.131]

Regarding Chic Gaylord; The Buffalo Hunters; knives on the frontier

Item Father Peter Powell to Mari Sandoz 1960, Oct. 28 [reel 33.132-133]

Regarding Cheyenne research; renewal of the Sacred Arrows; becoming a Cheyenne relative; work in Chicago; the Newberry library

Item Lester G. Wells [Syracuse University] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Oct. 28 [reel 33.134]

Regarding Sandoz-Hoffman correspondence

Item J.W. Vaughn to Mari Sandoz 1960, Nov. 4 [reel 33.144]

Regarding Frank Grouard; Walter Brazeau; Crooks campaign 1876

Item J.W. Vaughn to Mari Sandoz 1960, Nov. 4 [reel 33.144]

Regarding Frank Grouard; Walter Brazeau; Crooks campaign 1876

Item Father Peter Powell to Clarkson Potter 1960, Nov. 11 [reel 33.147-158]

Regarding Powell's Cheyenne research; legislation; tribal councils; Sandoz's influence on Powell

Item Mari Sandoz to J.W. Vaughn 1960, Nov. 12 [reel 33.151-153]

Regarding Frank Grouard; Brazeau; Nettie Goings; information from the Ricker interviews

Item Helen Hector [ Reader's Digest] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Nov. 17 [reel 33.163]

Regarding "What the Sioux Taught Me" (II) rejected

Item Mari Sandoz to Robert Springer 1960, Nov. 17 [reel 33.170]

Regarding MacDowell Colony; Huntington Hartford colony

Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz 1960, Nov. 20 [reel 33.171-176]

Regarding Martha Fiegenbaum's death; news from Melvin Van den Bark

Item Excerpts from above letter 1960, Nov.20 [reel 33.179]

Item George S. Peach to Mari Sandoz 1960, Nov.23 [reel 33.181]

Regarding writing; publishing; Edna Ferber

Item Omar Barker to Mari Sandoz 1960, Nov. 26 [reel 33.184-185]

Regarding request for a short piece of writing to be included in a book of "Western tales"

Item Miles N. Lee to Mari Sandoz 1960, Nov. 29 [reel 33.188-189]

Regarding the story of Festus Carrothers

Item Mrs. Robert Diller to Mamie Meredith 1960, Nov. 29 [reel 33.190]

Regarding Martha Fiegenbaum's death; Stephen Crane and Willa Cather

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Norma Bel Geddes 1960, Nov. 29 [reel 33.192-193]

Regarding Native American dancing, dancers

Item Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith 1960, Nov. 29 [reel 33.196]

Regarding death of Martha Fiegenbaum

Item Archibald Hanna [Yale University Press] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Nov. 29 [reel 33.199]

Regarding Sandoz write introduction to G.B. Grinnell's By Cheyenne Campfires

Item Laurie Franklin to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 2 [reel 33.203]

Regarding Sandoz the subject of an article in Midwest Review; request for a Sandoz piece for the journal

Item Mari Sandoz to Omar S. Barker 1960, Dec. 3 [reel 33.204]

Regarding Sandoz pieces for the Western Writers of American Compendium

Item Archibald Hanna to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 3 [reel 33.205]

Regarding By Cheyenne Campfires by Grinnell

Item Mari Sandoz to Laura Franklin 1960, Dec. 5 [reel 33.210]

Regarding Sandoz article Midwest Review

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] 1960, Dec. 5 [reel 33.211]

Regarding more suggestions for Bison Book Projects

Item Omar S. Barker Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 7 [reel 33.213-214]

Regarding Western Writers of America project; author bylines

Item Mary Blake to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 8 [reel 33.218]

Regarding Terence Duren

Item Glenn Faris [Nation Cowboy Hall of Fame and Heritage Center] 1960, Dec. 9 [reel 33.220-221]

Regarding First Annual Awards Banquet; members list

Item Mari Sandoz to David Susskind 1960, Dec. 9 [reel 33.222]

Regarding Jess Muir

Item E. Hugh Uhlmann to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 9 [reel 33.223-224]

Regarding relatives in The Cattlemen; Joseph Rosenbaum

Item G.B. Burnham to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 11 [reel 33.227-250]

Regarding Burnham's fight on behalf of his company Burnham Chemicals; related items

Item Mari Sandoz to Niel Ashburn 1960, Dec. 12 [reel 33.251]

Regarding Poncas; White Buffalo Girl monument

Item Mari Sandoz to Miles N. Lee 1960, Dec. 12 [reel 33.253]

Regarding Festus Carrothers

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] 1960, Dec. 12 [reel 33.255]

Regarding Festus Carrothers story; doing "authorized biography"

Item John G. Neihardt to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 14 [reel 33.262-264]

Regarding T.H. Tibbles; Bright Eyes; Susan La Flesche Picotte; Mrs. Ed Farley; Mary Farley

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Eugene Blake 1960, Dec. 14 [reel 33.265]

Regarding Terence Duren; artists

Item Mari Sandoz to various photographic companies and magazines 1960, Dec. 14 [reel 33.267-274]

Regarding photos and drawings to be included in Nebraska: Love Song to the Plains

Item Mari Sandoz to R. Hugh Uhlmann 1960, Dec. 16 [reel 33.203]

Regarding The Cattlemen; Rosenbaum; Kohrs; Patricia Tarnawsky

Item Mari Sandoz to J.W. Vaugh 1960, Dec.162 [reel 33.279]

Regarding Frank Grouard; rumors of "bad men" who flee to Indian Country; historical accuracy

Item Mari Sandoz to Alvin Josephy [ American Heritage] 1960, Dec. 18 [reel 33.280]

Regarding Crazy Horse

Item Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell 1960, Dec. 18 [reel 33.281]

Regarding Powell's Cheyenne research; list of photostats from Heyl Cheyenne Pictorial History

Item M.K. "Red" Meines to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec.19 [reel 33.287]

Regarding Nebraska forests; shelterbelts

Item Glenn Trump to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 19 [reel 33.292]

Regarding Ak-Sar-Ben photos

Item Almeda Vandel [McIntosh & Otis] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 19 [reel 33.293]

Regarding Hastings House contract for How the Sioux Live

Item Donald Danker [Nebraska State Historical Society] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 20 [reel 33.296-297]

Regarding Indian corn photos; Luther North; Don Russell's Buffalo Bill book

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese [Hastings House] 1960, Dec. 20 [reel 33.304]

Regarding West Coast cattle industry; Oregon cattle trails; Ruth S. Pike

Item Mari Sandoz to John G. Neihardt 1960, Dec. 20 [reel 33.305]

Regarding Tibbles; Bright Eyes; the La Flesches

Item Almeda Vandel [McIntosh & Otis] to Mari Sandoz 1960, Dec. 21 [reel 33.308]

Regarding Lippincott contract for Little Big Horn

Item Mari Sandoz to Oliver Jensen [ American Heritage 1960, Dec. 23 [reel 33.312]

Regarding Phil Sheridan; "grasshoppers stopping the Union Pacific railroad" photo

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] 1960, Dec. 23 [reel 33.313]

Regarding "Weldon Melick's book on Lee"; King Ranch

Item Mari Sandoz to Donald Danker [Nebraska State Historical Society] 1960, Dec. 28 [reel 33.315-316]

Regarding Indian corn; "Cody's whiskey wagon"; Buffalo Chips; a "fringe character"; source materials may be found in archives in Washington, D.C.

Item Walter Frese [Hastings House] to Mrs. Ruth Pike 1960, Dec. 29 [reel 33.318]

Regarding Oregon Cattle trail

Item Ruth Pike to Mari Sandoz [circa 1960, Dec.] [reel 33.326-333]

Regarding Fort Okanagan in Washington state; cattle trails of the Northwest; Winnipeg archives; personal news

Item [reel 33.335-337]

Regarding same as above [type written]

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] [circa 1960, Dec.] [reel 33.341-342]

Regarding Sandoz's problems with Clarkson Potter; Son of a Gamblin' Man

Item [reel 33.343]

"Neil Ashburn fulfills Black Elk's request"

Item Don Beckman to Mari Sandoz [circa 1960] [reel 33.348-350]

Regarding visiting Colorado and western Nebraska; Beckman's other travels

Item Curtis Crawford [Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy] to Mari Sandoz [circa 1960] [reel 33.355-358]

Regarding political action regarding nuclear policy

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese [Hastings House] [circa 1960] [reel 33.369]

Regarding "Indian article" Reader's Digest rejected; [this will become These Were the Sioux]

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] [circa 1960] [reel 33.395]

Regarding Helen Blish and Amos Bad Heart-Bull's manuscript

Item Mari Sandoz to Norman Geske [Nebraska Art Gallery, Morrill Hall] [circa 1960] [reel 33.399-400]

Regarding Robert Henri's relatives

Item Mari Sandoz to Melvin Van Den Bark [circa 1960] [reel 33.413]

Regarding speaking in Oklahoma; Son of a Gamblin' Man; Sandoz books to be reprinted as Bison books; Helen Hay's condition; article on Harvey Dunn

Item Mari Sandoz to Perry Branch 1961, Jan. 3 [reel 33.420]

Regarding Wimberly fund for writers

Item Mari Sandoz to Dr. Henry Tubbs Ricketts 1961, Jan. 3 [reel 33.422]

Regarding Dr. Howard Taylor Ricketts

Item Dorothy Creigh to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jan. 9 [reel 33.429-430]

Regarding Hayes M. Fuhr; Otto Rinderspacher Collection at Fuhr Hall at Hastings College

Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jan. 11 [reel 33.433-439]

Regarding a collection of Dr. Wimberly's writings; other news from Lincoln

Item Mari Sandoz to Russ Langford 1961, Jan. 11 [reel 33.440]

Regarding Wounded Knee photo

Item Mari Sandoz to Dora A. Carriker 1961, Jan. 12 [reel 33.442]

Regarding Sandoz's connection with American Journal of Nursing; Sandoz's latest writing project, Love Song to the Plains

Item Russ Langford to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jan. 27 [reel 33.463]

Regarding Wounded Knee photo; Frank Grouard

Item Lynn Martin [Winnifred Martin Memorial Library; Kansas] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jan. 28 [reel 33.466]

Regarding The Birney Arrow newsletter

Item Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jan. 31 [reel 33.469]

Regarding projects for University of Nebraska Press; Crazy Horse

Item Mari Sandoz to Ms. Wyeth, Jr. [Harper & Brothers] 1961, Feb. 1 [reel 33.479]

Regarding Nebraska: Love Song to the Plains; doing a bibliography for the book

Item Ruth Pike to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 2 [reel 33.480-481]

Regarding a Northwest cattle book; writing and writers

Item Mari Sandoz to Don Ward 1961, Feb. 2 [reel 33.483]

Regarding Jesse James in Nebraska

Item Mari Sandoz to A.V. Nordquist 1961, Feb. 3 [reel 33.488]

Regarding beef issue photo at Rosebud Agency

Item M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 3 [reel 33.]

Regarding the "Nebraska" manuscript [Love Song to the Plains]

Item Mari Sandoz to Homer Ayers 1961, Feb. 5 [reel 33.508]

Regarding Pierre region; Jinglebob outfit [ranch]; the murder of Shirley Dickenson's grandfather; writing

Item Mari Sandoz to Stuart Harris [publicity - Harper & Brothers] 1961, Feb. 6 [reel 33.517]

Regarding Sandoz bio and publicity for Love Song to the Plains

Item Mari Sandoz to Lynn Martin [Winnifred Martin Library] 1961, Feb. 6 [reel 33.518]

Regarding The Birney Arrow; collecting stories

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers] 1961, Feb. 6 [reel 33.520]

Regarding Nebraska: Love Song to the Plains

Item Boyd Carter [Southern Illinois University] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 7 [reel 33.523]

Regarding Broken Peace Pipes

Item Mari Sandoz to Board of Directors; Sheridan County Historical Society 1961, Feb. 7 [reel 33.525]

Regarding Sandoz wants to send materials to Society

Item Newspaper article [reel 33.526]

Regarding Sheridan County Historical Society and news from Spring Lake, Nebraska

Item Charles Barrett to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 8 [reel 33.528-529]

Regarding Cheyenne's situation; Maurice Sandoz; writing; the Presidential election of 1960

Item Lynn Martin [Winnifred Martin Memorial Library] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 10 [reel 33.534-538]

[This letter was filmed out of sequence] Regarding Winnifred Martin Memorial Library; collections

Item Mari Sandoz to Dr. Boyd Carter 1961, Feb. 11 [reel 33.540-541]

Regarding Broken Peace Pipes; writing books of protest

Item Dorothy Thomas to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 11 [reel 33.542-543]

Regarding Robert Henri

Item Irvin Peithmann to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 15 [reel 33.550]

Regarding Broken Peace Pipes; Sandoz to look over the manuscript

Item Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 16 [reel 33.555]

Regarding The Sweetwater Affair; opera and music; Crazy Horse sales

Item Mari Sandoz to Alvin Josephy 1961, Feb. 16 [reel 33.556]

Regarding Josephy's "Indian Book"; Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse; photos

Item Mari Sandoz to Lynn Martin [Winnifred Martin Memorial Library] 1961, Feb. 16 [reel 33.557]

Regarding Martin's collection; getting funded

Item Irvin Peithmann to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 17 [reel 33.565]

Regarding Broken Peace Pipes; The Choctaw Indians of Mississippi

Item Boyd Carter to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 18 [reel 33.568-569]

Regarding Peithmann manuscript

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] [Not sent] 1961, Feb. 18 [reel 33.571-572]

Regarding The Cattlemen; writing of tragic situations; Old Jules; Love Song to the Plains

Item Mari Sandoz to Dorothy Thomas [of New Jersey] 1961, Feb. 19 [reel 33.575-576]

Regarding Son of a Gamblin' Man; portrayal of law enforcement on T.V.; Robert Henri

Item 1961 [reel 33.588-591]

Sandoz's commentary on Peithmann's Broken Peace Pipes

Item Mari Sandoz to Cap Pearce [Duell, Sloan & Pearce] 1961, Feb. 22 [reel 33.593]

Regarding Broken Peace Pipes; Sandoz's disapproval

Item Clarence Benschoter to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 24 [reel 33.597]

Regarding Sheridan County Historical Society acquiring a permanent structure for materials

Item [reel 33.599]

"About Irvin Peithmann"

Item Body Carter to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 25 [reel 33.602]

Regarding Peithmann's Broken Peace Pipes

Item Richard Williams to Mari Sandoz 1961, Feb. 25 [reel 33.605]

Regarding Cheyennes and Bear Butte; Bear Butte now a state park and protected area

Item Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 3 [reel 33.624-625]

Regarding University of Nebraska Press's new building; opera

Item Father Peter Powell to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 3 [reel 33.626]

Regarding Crazy Horse; news from the Cheyennes

Item Mary Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] to Walter Frese 1961, Mar. 8 [reel 33.629]

Regarding These Were the Sioux

Item John G. Neihardt to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 9 [reel 33.636]

Regarding Neihardt's talk at the Westerner's Annual Dinner

Item Alan Farley [Attorney] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 10 [reel 33.637]

Regarding Cheyenne captive; Mrs. Morton

Item Robert L. Reynolds [ American Heritage] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 10 [reel 33.638]

Regarding Sandoz's Harvey Dunn article

Item Mari Sandoz to Alan Farley 1961, Mar. 13 [reel 33.648]

Regarding Cheyenne captivity of Mrs. Morton - Nancy Jane Morton; source materials

Item Gail Shickley to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 13 [reel 33.650-651]

Regarding photographs of A.C. Hull; Jack Morrow

Item Mari Sandoz to Van Allen Bradley { Chicago Daily news] 1961, Mar. 13 [reel 33.660]

Regarding Rosenbaum in the The Cattlemen

Item Mrs. Norman Beare [teacher at Wounded Knee school] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 20 [reel 33.667-668]

Regarding Crazy Horse

Item Charles Barrett to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 21 [reel 33.669-670]

Regarding Barrett's letter to "Mr. Udall", regarding American Indians; situation of Native Americans according to government press releases; Missions asking for money

Item Mari Sandoz to R.J. Spangler 1961, Mar. 22 [reel 33.672]

Regarding Custer's short haircut prior to Little Big Horn

Item Mari Sandoz to David Susskind 1961, Mar. 22 [reel 33.673]

Regarding bigotry

Item Charles Barrett to Mari Sandoz 1961, Mar. 25 [reel 33.676-677]

Regarding Reservation situations of American Indians; copy of a letter from Stewart L. Udall to W.W. Keeler

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] 1961, Mar. 27 [reel 33.681]

Regarding the term "free grass"

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Averett Seelye 1961, Mar. 30 [reel 33.682]

Regarding Sandoz's judgment of the A.A.U.W. writing project for 1961

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers] 1961, Apr. 2 [reel 33.689]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains; revisions

Item M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Apr. 12 [reel 33.702]

Regarding revisions for Love Song to the Plains

Item Mari Sandoz to Editorial Offices, Hastings House 1961, Apr. 13 [reel 33.704]

Regarding These Were the Sioux; revisions

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers] 1961, Apr. 14 [reel 33.705]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains; revisions; copy editing; language

Item Homer Ayres to Mari Sandoz 1961, Apr. 18 [reel 33.710-711]

Regarding South Dakota politics; John Birch Society; books

Item Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell 1961, Apr. 20 [reel 33.719]

Regarding a Sioux contrary; Sandoz gets a new typewriter

Item 1961, Apr. 21 [reel 33.721-722]

United Kingdom Income Tax Form to Sandoz

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky 1961, Apr. 21 [reel 33.724-725]

Regarding Milofsky's writing; advice on publishers

Item Father Peter Powell to Mari Sandoz 1961, Apr. 22 [reel 33.726]

Regarding Heyoka [contrary] material

Item Mari Sandoz to Robert Asplund 1961, Apr. 25 [reel 33.728]

Regarding Old Jules

Item Mari Sandoz to Gail Shuckley 1961, Apr. 25 [reel 33.730]

Regarding Jack Morrow; the "delayed" beaver book; kill deers; Hull photos

Item Stanley C. Smith to Mari Sandoz 1961, Apr. 26 [reel 33.736]

Regarding Nebraska Hall of Fame in State Capitol; Neihardt

Item Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell 1961, Apr. 27 [reel 33.739]

Regarding White Eyes family of Pine Ridge

Item Mari Sandoz to Professor Louis Trzcinski 1961, Apr. 27 [reel 33.740]

Regarding Sandhills Symphony Orchestra

Item Mari Sandoz to The "Quillers" 1961, May 1 [reel 33.745]

Regarding writing; homestead material; Sandoz's project-in-progress

Item Walter Frese [Hastings House] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 2 [reel 33.747-748]

Regarding jacket blurb for These Were the Sioux

Item Marjorie Leafdale to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 2 [reel 33.749]

Regarding Prairie Schooner awards for 1961

Item Mari Sandoz to Stanley [G?] Smith [Editor and Publisher The Wauneta Breeze 1961, May 2 [reel 33.750]

Regarding creation of Nebraska Hall of Fame; criteria for inclusion; John G. Neihardt

Item Clarence E. Benschoter [Sheridan County Historical Society, Inc.] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 3 [reel 33.751]

Regarding proposed museum

Item Dorothy W. Lessenhop [Nebraska Public Library Commission] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 3 [reel 33.752]

Regarding first Lincoln Book Fair Council's first Children's Book Fair; invitation to Mari to participate week of Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 1961

Item Don M. Rounds to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 3 [reel 33.753]

Regarding his admiration for The Cattlemen; request for inscription

Item Walter Frese [Hastings House] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 4 [reel 33.754]

Regarding Henry Alsberg and Sandoz's "charming manuscript" which "should be published"; length an issue; The Horse Catcher; request to Mari to consider writing a novel on Indian life

Item Mary G. Makras [Hastings House] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 4 [reel 33.755]

Regarding return of first draft of How the Sioux Live [These Were the Sioux]

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese [Hastings House] 1961, May 4 [reel 33.756]

Regarding production of These Were the Sioux; Mary Bryan Forsyth; Harpers; Amos Bad Heart Bull

Item Mari Sandoz to Dorothy W. Lessenhop [Nebraska Public Library Commission] 1961, May 5 [reel 33.758]

Regarding her willingness to participate in the Children's Book Festival; children's ability to read adult books such asCrazy Horse; Mari demonstrated a few Indian dance steps for students

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Bryan Forsyth 1961, May 8 [reel 33.759]

Regarding Forsyth's potential "become a really imaginative illustrator of Indian subjects"; pipes in Miller paintings; types of pipes; trappers; frontiersmen; Indians; Jim Bridger; meaning of short or long pipe stems; Little Wolf and short pipe stems after killing "Lean or Starving Elk"; Cherokees; Catawbas

Item Mari Sandoz to Ellen Tomlinson 1961, May 7 [reel 33.760]

Regarding University of Nebraska Press's rejection of Tomlinson's manuscript; Mari's suggestions of other publishers to submit to; encouragement; reminder that she tried 14 times before Old Jules was published

Item Mary Bryan Forsyth to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 8 [reel 33.761]

Regarding Forsyth's end map "Heart of the Plains" for [Love Song to the Plains]; Kirsch folio

Item [Ethel Anderson Groth] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 8 [reel 33.762-763]

Regarding birthday wishes to Mari; enjoyed Son of the Gamblin' Man

Item Bernard Milofsky to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 8 [reel 33.764]

Regarding Gil Orlovitz's short story; The Fiddlers Four; writers meetings

Item M. S. Wyeth, Jr. [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 8 [reel 33.765]

Regarding Oct. 11 publication date for [Love Song to the Plains]

Item Hila Gilbert [Mrs. Harold Gilbert] to Mari Sandoz [circa 1961, May 10] [reel 33.767]

Regarding Wyoming Federation of Women's Clubs; historic slides of Cheyenne villages; contrast to problematic present; Little Fingernail; Cheyenne Autumn; Sheridan Women's Club food distribution to Cheyennes; Meals for Millions Foundation; hunger on Indian reservations; Cheyenne Art Exhibit; May 30 ceremony to renew powers of the chief

Item Mari Sandoz to Emmie [Mygatt] 1961, May 10 [reel 33.768]

Regarding retention of copyright for Mari's short story "Musky"

Item Mari Sandoz to E. J. Stachowiak. M.D. 1961, May 14 [reel 33.769]

Regarding giving three "Indian talks"; Indian ways prior to whites' destruction; aftermath of contact; the Cheyenne; Mari's busy work life

Item Mari Sandoz to M. S. Wyeth, Jr. [Buz] [Harper & Brothers] 1961, May 14 [reel 33.770]

Regarding publication details for [Love Song to the Plains]; change Mary Forsyth map title from "Heart of [the Plains]"

Item Mrs. Blanche Williamson to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 14 [reel 33.772-773]

Regarding meadowlarks; weather

Item Mary Squire Abbot [McIntosh & Otis] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 15 [reel 33.775]

Regarding Lippincott's error in contract for Little Big Horn

Item M. S. Wyeth, Jr. [Buz] [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 15 [reel 33.776]

Regarding Acknowledgements, Bibliography; request for a Foreword

Item Dorothy W. Lessenhop [Nebraska Public Library Commission] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 16 [reel 33.777]

Regarding Mari's confirmation for Children's Book Fair

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary [Squire Abbot] [McIntosh & Otis] 1961, May 20 [reel 33.779]

Regarding corrections to Lippincott contract; copy editing; Mari's "usual set-to" about wrong-headed editorial changes; pleased with Forsyth illustrations and Sandhills photos

Item Mari Sandoz to Matt [Clohisy] 1961, May 20 [reel 33.780]

Regarding advice for fiction writers; newspaper writers not good at revisions; necessity of revising and polishing; good advice in Lucius Sherman's How to Describe and Narrate Visually; Melvin van den Bark

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese [Hastings House] 1961, May 20 [reel 33.782]

Regarding birthday flowers; kind stranger [Ethel Anderson Groth] who remembered Mari's birthday

Item Mari Sandoz to Ethel [Anderson] Groth 1961, May 20 [reel 33.783]

Regarding Mari thanks her for remembering her birthday

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard [Milofsky] 1961, May 20 [reel 33.784]

Regarding persistence in writing; choosing a publisher; Beacon Press; Atheneum; Clarkson Potter; Ed Aswell [McGraw]; Doubleday

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Kenneth [Emmie] Mygatt 1961, May 20 [reel 33.785]

Regarding "Musky"; nonfiction; "...the truth of every living situation of primary importance"; carbon copy to Dodd-Mead

Item Mari Sandoz to Don M. Rounds 1961, May 20 [reel 33.786]

Regarding inscription for The Cattlemen; 1929 version of XIT book by Haley [The XIT ranch of Texas, and the early days of the Llano estacado by J. Evetts Haley]; complaints from people not included in Old Jules; "stole just as many [calves], and so why weren't they included?"

Item Mari Sandoz to David Shelton 1961, May 20 [reel 33.787]

Regarding Shelton's reading of The Cattlemen and Crazy Horse; suggests he read Cheyenne Autumn

Item Walter Frese [Hastings House] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 22 [reel 33.788]

Regarding 25th anniversary anthology from western books; 116 pages from Sandoz; $5.00 per page royalties

Item Bernard [Milofsky] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 22 [reel 33.790]

Regarding publisher rejections of Milofsky's writings; attempts to get published

Item Caroline Sauer [McIntosh & Otis] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 22 [reel 33.791]

Regarding Corgi cuts to The Buffalo Hunters

Item Corgi to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 22 [reel 33.792]

Regarding list of cuts to The Buffalo Hunters

Item M. S. Wyeth, Jr. [Buz] [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 22 [reel 33.793]

Regarding short biographical sketch about authors in their books

Item Bernard [Milofsky] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 23 [reel 33.794]

Regarding Milofsky's breakthrough from being stuck on a novel he had been trying to write

Item Mari Sandoz to John L. Gilmartin 1961, May 23 [reel 33.795]

Regarding her enthusiasm for and suggestions to improve I Am Not Hamlet; "...the play is beginning to take on a fitting wildness that I like."

Item Mari Sandoz to The Sallees 1961, May 23 [reel 33.796]

Regarding thanks; George Catlin

Item Helga Epstein [Mrs. William Epstein] to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 24 [reel 33.797]

Regarding thanks for Mari's judging AAUW writing contest; Epstein revised her story; inquiry about where to publish

Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Sauer 1961, May 24 [reel 33.798]

Regarding Corgi cuts in abridged edition; Mari's interest in having a statement in book that it is abridged; interest in building a European readership

Item Mari Sandoz to Edward J. Stachowiak, M.D. 1961, May 26 [reel 33.799]

Regarding arranging her own transportation to conference in Seven Springs

Item Mari Sandoz to M. S. Wyeth, Jr. [Buz] [Harper & Brothers] 1961, May 26 [reel 33.800]

Regarding revisions to "About the Author"for Love Song to the Plains

Item (Mrs.) Purcelle Peck Smith to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 29 [reel 33.801]

Regarding American Journal of Nursing Fellowship to Stella Brueggen

Item Margene O. Faddis to Mari Sandoz 1961, May 31 [reel 33.802]

Regarding thanks for Mari's work on Mary M. Roberts Fellowship competition for American Journal of Nursing; thanks to Mari for writing individual notes to winners

Item Mari Sandoz to Sidney S. Burton, Woodland Conservationist, U.S.D.A. 1961, May 31 [reel 33.803]

Regarding thanks for photographs; Harper and Brothers' decision to use line drawings in Love Song to the Plains; book title change

Item Mari Sandoz to Gene M. Gressley, Archivist, University of Wyoming 1961, May 31 [reel 33.804]

Regarding belated thanks for December 17, 1959 letter and map of "My American Cattle Trails"; Colonel Wentworth's collection

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky 1961, May 31 [reel 33.805]

Regarding Fiddlers Four; writers sabotaging their own work; suggestions of publishers

Item Mary T. Betz, Hastings House to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 1 [reel 33.808]

Regarding return of original manuscript of These Were the Sioux and galleys 1-35

Item H. George Taylor to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 4 [reel 33.809-810]

Regarding seven stories by Taylor being published in one year in various periodicals

Item Mari Sandoz to Robert G. Athearn, University of Colorado 1961, June 5 [reel 33.811]

Regarding apology for slowness to respond; High Country Empire; on not writing book reviews; on Mari's problems with "copy editors, printers, proof readers, cartographers and jacket illustrators" and anachronisms

Item Mari Sandoz to Charles Barrett 1961, June 5 [reel 33.812]

Regarding Mari's "uneasiness" about Assistant Secretary of the Interior Carver's talk at Association on American Indians, about Bureau of Indian Affairs not being for the Indians; Leighs' White Cross American Indian Foundation; desperation of Pine Ridge Sioux

Item Mari Sandoz to Ralph Ellsworth, Director, University of Colorado Libraries 1961, June 5 [reel 33.813]

Regarding reply to Ellsworth's letter of September 10, 1960, regarding depositing Sandoz's archive at Colorado; interest from Syracuse University; Mari's description of her extensive research files and cards

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese 1961, June 5 [reel 33.814]

Regarding "Bits of Silver"; These Were the Sioux

Item Mari Sandoz to Esther Mae Henke, Extension Librarian, Oklahoma State University 1961, June 5 [reel 33.815]

Regarding reply to Henke's letter of November 10, 1959; "several notebooks of stories from an Oklahoma Indian"; Alice Marriott; Carol Rachlin; "first hand Hunkpapa and Oglala Sioux"

Item Mari Sandoz to George E. Hornby, Cherry County Historical Society 1961, June 5 [reel 33.816]

Regarding reply to letter of [16 Oct. 1959]; presenting copy of Old Jules to the Society; "Good stories have a way of escaping as the old timers die."

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed La Plante 1961, June 5 [reel 33.817]

Regarding belated reply to La Plante's letter; "It seems one writes letters or books, not both."; Sioux hospital at Standing Rock; Mari not pleased with John Carver's talk at Association on American Indians

Item Mari Sandoz to Sylvia Leigh, President, White Cross American Indian Foundation 1961, June 5 [reel 33.818]

Regarding Mari refers to "the husky deficits that Cheyenne Autumn and Crazy Horse left in the budget"; Mari's anger at Indians being put "in the position of paupers when they were the continent"; Leigh's play; why Cheyenne Autumn would not be a good play

Item Mari Sandoz to Gene Price, Editor, Publications, The Ohio Oil Company 1961, June 5 [reel 33.819]

Regarding his writing; Mari is "uneasy about Fort Robinson"; concern about inaccuracies in Historical Society displays; Donald Danker at Historical Society is "a good, serious man"; Flair magazine; Archie Teater

Item Mari Sandoz to Pat and Archie Teater 1961, June 5 [reel 33.820]

Regarding concern about robberies of Teater's paintings

Item Mari Sandoz to Ezra J. Warner 1961, June 5 [reel 33.821]

Regarding Mrs. Custer; Yellow Swallow; conspiracy of silence regarding Custer's son

Item Mari Sandoz to Richard B. Williams, Sturgis Public Schools 1961, June 5 [reel 33.822-823]

Regarding "Congratulations on getting Bear Butte set aside as a State Park!"; importance as religious site for Cheyenne and Sioux; on looking for signs of prehistoric use at site; imagining the past; homesick for the Plains; The Horsecatcher; Belle Fourche-Little Missouri region

Item Mari Sandoz to Korczak Ziolkowski 1961, June 5 [reel 33.824-825]

Regarding premiere of Charles Mills' Crazy Horse Symphony; Max Rudolf; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Sand Hills Symphony Orchestra at North Platte, Nebraska; [musical] compositions of regional interest; Mari's itinerary Oct. 11 through Nov. 4, 1961; possible time in Sandhills; possible visit to Custer, S.D.

Item Graham Watson to Caroline Sauer, Curtis Brown Ltd. to McIntosh & Otis, Inc. 1961, June 5 [reel 33.826]

Regarding Eyre & Spottiswode on Corgi "always very good about making clear whether any edition ... is abridged or not"; Buffalo Hunters; Bent's Fort by David Lavender

Item Mary Squire Abbot to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jun. 6 [reel 33.827]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains; The Story Catcher

Item Mari Sandoz to Miss Betz 1961, Jun. 6 [reel 33.828]

Regarding galley proofs for These Were the Sioux

Item M. S. Wyeth, Jr. [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jun. 6 [reel 33.829]

Regarding request to write a "short piece" for catalog of A. C. McClurg & Co. on writing Love Song to the Plains

Item Edward LaPlante to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.830-832]

Regarding termination of some tribes; American Indian Chicago Conference; Carlisle Indian School; travels in New York

Item Florence Becker Lennon to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.833-834]

Regarding thanks for sending John Gilmart [?] for interview; poet who is a welder

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Squire Abbot 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.836]

Regarding writing about Love Song to the Plains for McClurg

Item Mari Sandoz to M. K. Meines, Nurseryman, Halsey, Nebraska 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.837]

Regarding thanks for photographs; request to retain them for future use; change of title to Love Song to the Plains; publisher's decision to use line drawings; artist is Mary Bryan Forsyth, grand-daughter of William Jennings Bryan

Item Mari Sandoz to H. George Taylor 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.838]

Regarding congratulations on his publication; reminisces about her "Pieces to a Quilt" in North American Review; power of Taylor's work lies in "symbolism lying deep in the unconscious racial memory of Man"; D. H. Lawrence; advice to "Keep it simple and true" and avoid "all pretense, all posturing"

Item Mari Sandoz to Glenn Trump, Knights of Aksarben 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.839]

Regarding thanks for photographs; change of title to Love Song to the Plains; publisher's decision to use line drawings; artist is Mary Bryan Forsyth, grand-daughter of William Jennings Bryan

Item Mari Sandoz to Ben Ward, Hastings House 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.840-841]

Regarding Dull Knife's whereabouts during Little Big Horn; on why the Thomas Wilhelm photograph cannot be of Crazy Horse; Sandoz lays out detailed rebuttal of claims of photo[s] of Crazy Horse

Item Mari Sandoz to M. S. Wyeth, Jr., Harper & Brothers 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.842]

Regarding thanks for "kind words" from McClurg; "Chicago has her roots in plains like Montana"

Item M. S. Wyeth, Jr. [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jun. 8 [reel 33.843]

Regarding galleys

Item Helen Buttrick to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jun. 9 [reel 33.844-845]

Regarding enjoyment of Mari's American Heritage piece on painter Harvey Dunn; Buttrick's pioneer background; grandfather helped lay out Durango, Colorado

Item Ralph E. Ellsworth, Director, University of Colorado Libraries, to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jun. 9 [reel 33.846]

Regarding offer of dedicated space at Colorado Special Collections for Sandoz's entire collection; would keep it together; offer of office for Sandoz

Item Mari Sandoz to M. S. Wyeth, Jr., Harper & Brothers 1961, Jun. 9 [reel 33.847]

Regarding galleys; her concerns about maps for her books

Item Editors of Story [magazine] to Mari Sandoz 1961, Jun. 9 [reel 33.848]

Regarding delay in publication of next issue

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Bryan Forsyth 1961, Jun. 10 [reel 33.849]

Regarding maps; Fort Laramie; North Platte

Item Autumn Mead Ryan to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 11 [reel 0033.851]

Regarding American Heritage on Harvey Dunn; Mari's commentary on Read's international travels; Read's mother's death

Item Mari Sandoz to Ralph Ellsworth 1961, June 12 [reel 0033.852]

Regarding thanks for University of Colorado offer to house her archives; declines at present as has ten years' work under contract; her Great Plains series; Hanson Baldwin

Item Mari Sandoz to C. Bertrand Schultz, Director of Nebraska State Museum 1961, June 12 [reel 0033.853]

Regarding thanks for photographs; change of title to Love Song to the Plains; publisher's decision to use line drawings; artist is Mary Bryan Forsyth, grand-daughter of William Jennings Bryan

Item M.S. Wyeth, Jr. [Buz] to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 12 [reel 0033.854]

Regarding tight schedule for proofreading

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth, Jr. 1961, June 14 [reel 0033.856]

Regarding work on proofs; process for creating index; approval of PW [Publishers' Weekly] announcement

Item Inez Sallee to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 15 [reel 0033.857-858]

Regarding New York Times article on Menominees; forest; Chinocock [Shinnecock] Reservation on Long Island; invitation to Mari to visit this reservation

Item Mari Sandoz to Manufacturing Department, Harper & Brothers 1961, June 15 [reel 0033.859]

Regarding galleys for Love Song to the Plains

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth, Jr. 1961, June 15 [reel 0033.860]

Regarding inaccuracies in "brief description"; corrections needed

Item Arnold Cayser to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 16 [reel 0033.861]

Regarding Real West article about John G. Maher's monster in Alkali Lake near Chadron, Nebraska; Naomi Babson; Hughie Call; Jo Sykes

Item Ralph Ellsworth to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 16 [reel 0033.862]

Encouraging Mari to move her collection and herself to Colorado; "Come out here and turn the power of your prose on the rascals that are ruining the west."

Item M.S. Wyeth, Jr. to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 16 [reel 0033.863]

Apologizes for errors in "brief description"; glad Mari likes map

Item Ralph Ellsworth to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 17 [reel 0033.864]

Encouraging Mari to move to Colorado soon; want her materials eventually

Item Lottie Kirk [Mrs. George W. Kirk] to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 17 [reel 0033.865-866]

Likes all of Mari's books except Slogum House; request for complete list of books by Mari

Item Mari Sandoz to Dick N. Schaffer, Chief, Information-Education Division, State of Nebraksa, Game, Forestation and Parks Division 1961, June 18 [reel 0033.867]

Regarding thanks for photographs; request to retain them for future use; change of title to Love Song to the Plains; publisher's decision to use line drawings; artist is Mary Bryan Forsyth, grand-daughter of William Jennings Bryan

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth, Jr. 1961, June 19 [reel 0033.868]

Mari turned in rest of galleys; importance of taking manuscript home after editing; changes needed; draft of foreword

Item Harry F. Porter to [Author] 1961, June 20 [reel 0033.869-870]

Regarding Holiday's States West of the Mississippi; noted omission of Nebraska's unicameral; his desire for a unicameral in Connecticut

Item Dick N. Schaffer to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 20 [reel 0033.871]

Regarding permission to keep photographs

Item Francis Wolle to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 20 [reel 0033.872]

Encouraging Mari to deposit her archive at University of Colorado; Wolle and Mrs. Wolle [Muriel Sibell] leaving their Indian collections to University of Colorado; Old Jules; Slogum House; Crazy Horse; Mari's visit to Colorado

Item M.S. Wyeth, Jr. to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 20 [reel 0033.873]

Regarding foreword is fine

Item Sidney S. Burton, Woodland Conservationist, Soil Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Lincoln, Nebraska to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 21 [reel 0033.874]

Regarding having illustrations rather than photographs; permission for Mari to retain photographs

Item Mari Sandoz to R.L. Lichtenberg 1961, June 21 [reel 0033.875]

Regarding illustrations page; cutline; inside flap of jacket; Sioux folio; placement of illustrations

Item Mari Sandoz 1961, June 21 [reel 0033.876]

Handwritten list of illustrations

Item Norma Carpenter, Miller & Paine, Lincoln, to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 22 [reel 0033.877]

Invitation to Mari for book launch of Love Song to the Plains at Miller & Paine Bookstore; Gladys Douglas; Mrs. Bruce Nicoll [Pat Nicoll]; Bruce Nicoll, an author of "The Sweetwater Story" produced by University Theatre

Item Mary Bryan Forsyth to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 22 [reel 0033.878-879]

Invitation to celebrate completion of Love Song to the Plains; Don and Betty Ward

Item Eugene L. Price, Editor, The Beacon to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 23 [reel 0033.880]

Regarding Price researching a book on Indian wars with Brummett Echohawk; Echohawk's collection of "tapes on Indian Plains music and ceremonials"; Will Robinson; Whitey Lindstrom; Badlands; Ghost Dance

Item Mari Sandoz to Doris Laufer, McClurg & Co. 1961, June 23 [reel 0033.881]

Regarding short piece about Love Song to the Plains; "short pieces are not my meat"; "Easterners are always surprised that I can do anything except write sentences that they do not like."

Item M.S. Wyeth, Jr. to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 23 [reel 0033.882]

Regarding jacket proof; inclusion of "explanatory reading line" for book browsers

Item Ida Dominico to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 25 [reel 0033.883-884]

Regarding settling with Mari as Dominico sells her store

Item Sally P. Johnson to Caroline Sauer, McIntosh & Otis, Inc. 1961, June 25 [reel 0033.885]

Regarding request to reprint "Musky" from Hostiles and Friendlies

Item Art Vetter to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 25 [reel 0033.886]

Regarding clipping from Denver morning news; Vetter's travels

Item K.L. [Ken] Bowen, State Senator, Nebraska, to Mamie Meredith 1961, June 26 [reel 0033.887]

Regarding passage of LB 713; "a step in correcting the problems among the Indians"

Item Gene M. Gressley, Archivist, University of Wyoming to Eugene G. Gottschalk 1961, June 26 [reel 0033.888]

Invitation to deposit Gottschalk's Sandoz holdings at University of Wyoming; interest in collecting Western History manuscripts

Item Dick Williams, Sturgis Public Schools to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 26 [reel 0033.889]

Reply to Mari's letter of June 5; Bear Butte; South Dakota Livestock Growers Association commission to Williams and Bob Lee, Sturgis Tribune, to write centennial history of South Dakota cattle industry; Sandoz's The Cattlemen; Narcisse Marcelle; Flack Cattle Theft

Item M.S. Wyeth, Jr. to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 26 [reel 0033.890]

Regarding jacket copy for Mari's approval

Item Arnold F. Cayser to University of Neuenberg in Switzerland 1961, June 27 [reel 0033.891]

Regarding "Dr. Mari Sandoz"; [letter written in German]

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth, Jr. 1961, June 27 [reel 0033.892]

Regarding jacket for Love Song to the Plains is fine; comments on jacket design; Mari's dislike of cameras; Miller & Paine's "'(first)' autographing in the region"; Pat Nicoll; Bruce Nicoll; Denver Dry Goods book department

Item M. S. Wyeth, Jr. to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 28 [reel 0033.893]

Regarding jacket, flap copy, photo of Mari; schedule for printing and indexing

Item Mari Sandoz to Norma [Carpenter] 1961, June 29 [reel 0033.894]

Regarding "first autographing" of Love Song to the Plains; These Were the Sioux forthcoming; Mary Bryan Forsyth, illustrator; [signed Mary, not Mari]

Item Julian Seaman to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 29 [reel 0033.895]

Regarding request for Mari's help with history of the piano; upright pianos in the "frontier West"; transportation of pianos; mechanical pianos

Item George F. Reynolds to Mari Sandoz 1961, June 30 [reel 0033.896-902]

Regarding encouraging Mari to deposit her research files at University of Colorado




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