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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 25. Correspondence, 1961, July-Dec. [Microfilm Reel MS00034]Item Mari Sandoz to Albert S. Bennett, 1961, July 4 [frame 34.9-10]

Regarding advice on Bennett's writings, Enter Lavinia, Ravished.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harry F. Porter, 1961, July 4 [frame 34.13]

Regarding Nebraska article for Holiday magazine.

Item Mari Sandoz to Homer Croy, 1961, July 5 [frame 34.17]

Regarding Dvoraks of Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to Julian Seaman, 1961, July 5 [frame 34.20]

Regarding pianos on the plains.

Item Mari Sandoz to Margot Liberty, 1961, Aug. 5 [frame 34.21-22]

Letter out of sequence. Regarding Crazy Horse; Custer battlefield; carvings in the rocks; Oglala source materials.

Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Sauer, McIntosh & Otis, 1961, July 6 [frame 34.26]

Regarding "Musky;" Buffalo Hunters; Love Song to the Plains.

Item Marshall A. Best, Viking Publishers to Mari Sandoz, 1961, July 6 [frame 34.27]

Regarding Josephy's Patriot Chiefs.

Item Margot Liberty to Mari Sandoz, 1961, July 3 [frame 34.30]

letter out of sequence. Regarding Eddie Sandcrane; Cheyennes; Crazy Horse; sandstone carvings at Reno Creek; John Stands in Timber.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky, 1961, July 9 [frame 34. 31]

Regarding publishers to try.

Item M.S. Wyeth to Mari Sandoz, 1961, July 11 [frame 34.36]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains; Sandoz's itinerary for fall 1961.

Item Gene Price to Mari Sandoz, 1961, July 12 [frame 34.37]

Regarding military "Indian Fighters" of 1860s; Spotted Tail source material.

Item Mari Sandoz to Stuart Harris, Harpers ?, 1961, July 12 [frame 34.38]

Regarding Sandoz's fall itinerary; Love Song to the Plains appearances; blurbs for the book are not to be solicited.

Item Mari Sandoz to Alvin Josephy, 1961, July 18 [frame 34.48]

Regarding Patriot Chiefs; Spotted Tail.

Item Mari Sandoz to Linger Mortuary, 1961, July 18 [frame 34.49]

Note: Flowers wired for L.W. Van Vleet (Boss Van Vleet).

Item Mari Sandoz to Marshall A. Best, 1961, July 19 [frame 34.52]

Regarding Patriot Chiefs.

Item Alvin Josephy to Mari Sandoz, 1961, July 20 [frame 34.53]

Regarding Patriot Chiefs; acknowledgement of Sandoz's help.

Item Bill Killoy? O'Kelley? to Mari Sandoz, 1961, July 20 [frame 34.54-55]

See also frames 440-442 to Mari Sandoz. Regarding a Crow Indian named Ties His Knees; Poem about Ties His Knees.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ralph Mueller, 1961, July 20 [frame 34.61]

Regarding Old Jules; Plains Indians' child raising practices; diapers for Indian babies; dogs among tribal people.

Item Mari Sandoz to Gene Price, 1961, July 22 [frame 34.67-69]

Regarding "Harney, Chivington and Custer, et al.;" Spotted Tail; Hyde's Spotted Tail; Ash Hollow.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Buttrick, 1961, July 24 [frame 34.72]

Regarding Harvey Dunn articles.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky, 1961, July 24 [frame 34.74-80]

Regarding opening for Fiddlers Four.

Item Bernard Milofsky to Mari Sandoz, 1961, July 25 [frame 34.83-84]

Regarding Fiddlers Four.

Item Mari Sandoz to Dick Williams, 1961, July 26 [frame 34.85]

Regarding Frenchman killed at Bear Butte, buried in a cave.

Item Dick Williams to Mari Sandoz, 1961, July 27 [frame 34.86-87]

Regarding The Cattlemen; grave of the Frenchman found [this might be the Amiotte grave. K.L.].

Item Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell, 1961, July 29 [frame 34.88]

Regarding The Story Catcher material; Cheyennes; confusion over Medicine Arrow.

Item Mari Sandoz to Arnold Cayser, 1961, Aug. 3 [frame 34.101]

Regarding letters; hunting; Alvin Josephy.

Item Mari Sandoz to Gene Price, 1961, Aug. 3 [frame 34.109]

Regarding Brummett Echohawk; Price's junket to the West.

Item Mari Sandoz to Homer Ayres, 1961, Aug. 5 [frame 34.115]

Regarding John Birch Society; Banditti of the Plains.

Item Mari Sandoz to Margot Liberty, 1961, Aug. 5 [frame 34.117-118]

Same letter as on frames 21-22; Regarding Crazy Horse; Custer battlefield; carvings in the rocks; Oglala source materials.

Item Mari Sandoz to Jack C. Best, 1961, Aug. 8 [frame 34.129-130]

Regarding Tom Horn.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Frank Donahoe, 1961, Aug. 8 [frame 34.133]

Regarding Cozad family ties.

Item Mari Sandoz to F.E. Shaw, 1961, Aug. 8 [frame 34.139-140]

Regarding Sandhills families and dances; "locoed" horses.

Item Mari Sandoz to Cheyenne Tribal Council, 1961, Aug. 8 [frame 34.141]

Regarding Cheyenne Autumn sent to the tribe.

Item Mari Sandoz to Marguerite Young?, 1961, Aug. 10 [frame 34.147]

Regarding Edgar Allen Poe.

Item Perry Branch, University of Nebraska Foundation to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 11 [frame 34.148-149]

Regarding Prairie Schooner award.

Item Bruce Nicoll, University of Nebraska Press to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 14 [frame 34.156]

Regarding These Were the Sioux.

Item Gene M. Gressley, University of Wyoming to Eugene Gottschalk, 1961, Aug. 15 [frame 34.159]

Regarding Gottschalk donating his "Sandoz collection" to the University of Wyoming.

Item Walter Frese, Hastings House to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 17 [frame 34.161]

Regarding news of "Mari Sandoz Week;" Sandoz's itinerary; The Cattlemen review; Old Jules in paperback.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary B. Forsyth, 1961, Aug. 19 [frame 34.165]

Regarding Yeffe Kimball; Alvina Mofsie, a Winnebago dancer; best sources for Indian information.

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese, Hastings House, 1961, Aug. 19 [frame 34.166]

Regarding "Mari Sandoz Week;" itinerary and autographing while in Nebraska; Old Jules; Crazy Horse.

Item Mari Sandoz to Rose Van Vleet, 1961, Aug. 19 [frame 34.168]

Regarding death of "Boss" L.W. Van Vleet.

Item Gene Price to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 21 [frame 34.171]

Regarding Price's visit to Pine Ridge; Whitney Museum in Cody, Wyoming.

Item Stanley Smith to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 23 [frame 34.173]

Regarding bust of John Neihardt in Capitol in Lincoln.

Item Mari Sandoz to Peter Decker, 1961, Aug. 27 [frame 34.179]

Regarding Benedict Arnold.

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth, Harper & Brothers, 1961, Aug. 27 [frame 34.183]

Regarding Milofsky's Fiddlers Four.

Item Alvin Josephy, American Heritage to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 28 [frame 34.193]

Regarding American Heritage Book on Indians.

Item John G. Neihardt to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 28 [frame 34.195-196]

Regarding Neihardt's bust to be placed in the Capitol building in Lincoln; Black Elk Speaks reprinted by University of Nebraska Press.

Item Mari Sandoz to Willis Blenkinsop, 1961, Aug. 28 [frame 34.198]

Regarding Custer in Texas; Cheyennes; Sacred Arrows.

Item Mari Sandoz to Norma Kidd Green, 1961, Aug. 28 [frame 34.205-206]

Regarding LaFlesche materials; suggestions for television docu-drama.

Item Sam J. Ervin, Jr. to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 29 [frame 34.214-215]

Regarding Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of American Indians; questionnaire regarding American Indians.

Item Father Peter Powell to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 29 [frame 34.219-220]

Regarding Young Medicine Arrow confused with "Old" Medicine Arrow; Sacred Hat renewal ceremony; Crazy Horse; locating the "Prowers Notebook;" Sacred Wheel Bundle; Alice Marriott and Carol Rachlin; Sacred Arrows captured by the Pawnees.

Item Eugene Gottschalk to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 30 [frame 34.226-227]

Regarding Gottschalk/Sandoz letters; collection at University of Wyoming.

Item M.S. Wyeth, Harper & Brothers to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Aug. 30 [frame 34.228]

Regarding Milofsky's Fiddlers Four rejected.

Item Mari Sandoz to Jim Carr, 1961, Aug. 30 [frame 34.230]

Regarding Bureau of Ethnology Reports.

Item Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell, 1961, Sept. 2 [frame 34.237]

Regarding renewal ceremony for the Sacred Hat.

Item Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell, 1961, Sept. 4 [frame 34.238-239]

Regarding Box Elder, a Northern Cheyenne with Dull Knife; Brave Wolf.

Item Mari Sandoz to Buz M.S. Wyeth, Harper & Brothers, 1961, Sept. 4 [frame 34.242]

Regarding Bernard Milofsky's Fiddlers Four.

Item Mari Sandoz to Buz M.S. Wyeth, Harper & Brothers, 1961, Sept. 6 [frame 34.253]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky, 1961, Sept. 8 [frame 34.262]

Regarding Fiddlers Four.

Item Mary Bryan Forsyth to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Sept. 15 [frame 34.278]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains.

Item Rose Van Vleet to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Sept. 17 [frame 34.284-286]

Regarding life since the death of "Boss" Van Vleet; a book of his life.

Item Mari Sandoz to unknown person, 1961, Sept. 21 [frame 34.299]

"Some Sources on Standing Bear, the Ponca Chief."

Item Korczak Ziolkowski to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Sept. 25 [frame 34.305]

Regarding Sandoz's upcoming visit to the Black Hills; photo of Crazy Horse.

Item Mari Sandoz to Charles Barrett, 1961, Sept. 25 [frame 34.309]

Regarding how These Were the Sioux came to be.

Item Mari Sandoz to Rose Van Vleet, 1961, Sept. 25 [frame 34.315]

Regarding a book about "Boss" Van Vleet.

Item Mari Sandoz to WCBS-TV, 1961, Sept. 25 [frame 34.316-317]

Regarding Saul Levitt's script on the trial of Standing Bear, Ponca; copyrights; public domain.

Item Mari Sandoz to Korczak Ziolkowski, 1961, Sept. 28 [frame 34.326]

Regarding The Story Catcher; Sandoz's upcoming visit. Dawn in The Story Catcher named in honor of Ziolkowski's daughter.

Item Mary Abbot to Walter Frese, 1961, Oct. 3 [frame 34.337]

Regarding These Were the Sioux.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot, McIntosh & Otis, 1961, Oct. 4 [frame 34.340]

Regarding These Were the Sioux; Love Song to the Plains; The Story Catcher.

Item Mari Sandoz to Reva Evans, 1961, Oct. 4 [frame 34.341]

Regarding John Gordon; Gordon, Nebraska.

Item Mary Abbot to Clarkson Potter, 1961, Oct. 5 [frame 34.346]

Regarding Sandoz's "touring" schedule; Son of a Gamblin' Man.

Item Mari Sandoz to Norma R. Youngberg, 1961, Oct. 7 [frame 34.352]

Regarding permission to use examples of Sandoz's work in a book about writing.

Item Don Beckman to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Oct. 9 [frame 34.353-354]

Regarding life in San Francisco.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. F.M. Tuttle, University of Nebraska Press, 1961, Oct. 10 [frame 34.361]

Regarding materials for Old Jules reprint; Dwight Kirsch photos.

Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Oct. 11 [frame 34.365-367]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains; Ron Hull and KUON-TV; John Neihardt.

Item Mari Sandoz to Don Beckman, 1961, Oct. 12 [frame 34.370]

Regarding Beckman in the military.

Item Mari Sandoz to Alvin Josephy, 1961, Oct. 12 [frame 34.374]

Regarding The American Heritage Book of Indians; Merrival news column from Pine Ridge.

Item Mari Sandoz to Sam J. Ervin, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of American Indians, 1961, Oct. 15 [frame 34.383-384]

Regarding Plains Indians; Sandoz's response to Ervin's questionnaire.

Item Ron Hull, KUON-TV to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Oct. 20 [frame 34.406]

Regarding Sandoz to do another television interview while in Lincoln.

Item M.S. Wyeth, Harper & Brothers to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Oct. 20 [frame 34.412]

Regarding "The Father Point Book."

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese , Hastings House, 1961, Oct. 21 [frame 34.413]

Regarding "The Father Point Book;" Flatheads.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mark Miller, Sioux City Journal, 1961, Oct. 23 [frame 34.423-424]

Regarding Sandoz's upcoming trip west; photos of Sandoz and family; Sandoz's Sioux City connections.

Item Mari Sandoz to Gene Gressley, University of Wyoming, 1961, Oct. 24 [frame 34.428]

Regarding brochure for "Western History Research Center" at University of Wyoming Library; Grace Hebard Collection; Taggart diaries.

Item Mari Sandoz to Dr. K. Ross Toole, 1961, Oct. 24 [frame 34.432]

Regarding a play by William O'Kelly, Grandpa Two Medicine.

Item Mari Sandoz to Leonard Veeder, 1961, Oct. 25 [frame 34.434]

Regarding Crazy Horse's relatives, descendants.

Item Don Barnhart, He Dog School to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Oct. 25 [frame 34.438]

Regarding Sandoz books; a brief history of He Dog School; James George Wright, Indian agent at Rosebud.

Item William O'Kelly to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Oct. 25 [frame 34.440-442]

Regarding writing plays; a short poem by William O'Kelly; see also frames 54-55

Item Alice Marriott to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Oct. 31 [frame 34.472]

Regarding Marriott and Carol Rachlin attended "Westerners" with Sandoz.

Item Eugene Gottschalk to G.M. Gressley, University of Wyoming, 1961, Oct. 31 [frame 34.475-476]

Regarding Gottschalk/Sandoz Collection.

Item M.S. Wyeth, Harper & Brothers to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Oct. 31 [frame 34.477]

Regarding reviews of Love Song to the Plains.

Item Walter Frese , Hastings House to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 1 [frame 34.486-487]

Regarding orders for These Were the Sioux.

Item Gene Gressley to Eugene Gottschalk, 1961, Nov. 9 [frame 34.524-529]

Regarding the Gottschalk/Sandoz Collection at the University of Wyoming; listing of materials in the Gottschalk/Sandoz Collection.

Item Buz M.S. Wyeth, Harper & Brothers to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 9 [frame 34.532]

Regarding merger with Row, Peterson & Co. to become Harper & Row.

Item Jim Carr to Lester G. Wells, Rare Book Room, Syracuse University, 1961, Nov. 13 [frame 34.537]

Regarding Sandoz materials; These Were the Sioux manuscript.

Item Irma Freyer to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 14 [frame 34.539-540]

Regarding diaries of a mule-team trip from Omaha to Oakland, California.

Item Mark H. Brown to Walter Frese, 1961, Nov. 16 [frame 34.542-543]

Regarding Western Americana reprints; Sandoz queries; The Frontier Years; Before Barbed Wire; Plainsmen of Yellowstone.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harvey Little Thunder, 1961, Nov. 20 [frame 34.553-554]

Regarding source material in Sandoz files regarding Little Thunder; Little Thunder, Jr., a sort of chronology.

Item Ron Hull, KUON-TV to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 21 [frame 34.557]

Regarding Neihardt dedication at the Capitol in Lincoln; a Sandoz and Neihardt program.

Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 24 [frame 34.570-573]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains reviews; Benjamin Botkin; Thomas Wolfe; Ruth Pike.

Item Robert W. Lewis to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 26 [frame 34.578-584]

Regarding Crazy Horse; interest in western Americana and Indian writings; Lewis's background, trip to Pine Ridge; Jake Hermann; Indian "heroes."

Item John G. Noll to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 26 [frame 34.593]

Regarding American Heritage article about artist Harvey Dunn.

Item Mark H. Brown to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 27 [frame 34.598]

Regarding the "Sioux Question."

Item Mari Sandoz to Don Barnhart, He Dog School, 1961, Nov. 27 [frame 34.600]

Regarding Harvey Little Thunder; someone should write a book about Little Thunder.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Jack Meldrum, 1961, Nov. 27 [frame 34.610]

Regarding Robert Meldrum of Fort Sarpy; references and sources.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll, University of Nebraska Press, 1961, Nov. 27 [frame 34.612]

Regarding Harvey Little Thunder and his wife Trudy Bordeaux; Bettelyoun manuscript; Sandoz lobbies for "more action" on Bettelyoun manuscript.

Item Mari Sandoz to Kay Rogers, 1961, Nov. 28 [frame 34.624]

Regarding the Harvey Dunn article; Alida Malkus; television docu-drama about Indian trials; death of James Thurber.

Item Senator Fern Hubbard Orme to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 29 [frame 34.631]

Regarding Neihardt dedication in Lincoln.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith, 1961, Nov. 29 [frame 34.634]

Regarding reviews; going to the Northwest; events concerning Sandoz's books in print.

Item Mari Sandoz to Don Ward, 1961, Nov. 29 [frame 34.638]

Regarding suggestions for articles; Pat Hall; Don Barnhart; Harvey Little Thunder.

Item Colonel B.F. Stahl to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 29 [frame 34.639]

Regarding Historical Trail for Boy Scouts in Nebraska.

Item Bruce Nicoll to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 30 [frame 34.647]

Regarding Harvey Little Thunder; John Stands in Timber.

Item Suttons to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Nov. 30 [frame 34.649-650]

Regarding historical societies in Kansas; Benkelman, Nebraska; Custer in Kansas.

Item Mari Sandoz to Robert Lewis, 1961, Dec. 3 [frame 34.662]

Regarding Crazy Horse; Bear Butte; feelings toward Indians.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky, 1961, Dec. 3 [frame 34.663]

Regarding Anais Nin.

Item Mari Sandoz to Senator Fern Hubbard Orme, 1961, Dec. 3 [frame 34.665]

Regarding Neihardt dedication.

Item Bernard Milofsky to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Dec. 6 [frame 34.668]

Regarding Anais Nin; The Fiddlers Four; multiple sclerosis.

Item Gene Gressley, University of Wyoming to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Dec. 7 [frame 34.668-672]

Regarding Gottschalk/Sandoz Collection; news release of Sandoz Collection at University of Wyoming.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky, 1961, Dec. 9 [frame 34.681-682]

Regarding Sandoz has Anais Nin autograph a book for Milofsky; multiple sclerosis treatment.

Item Gene Gottschalk to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Dec. 11 [frame 34.685-686]

Regarding newspaper item describing Gottschalk's donation to University of Wyoming.

Item Mari Sandoz to Colonel B.F. Stahl, 1961, Dec. 11 [frame 34.696]

Regarding Historic Trail for Boy Scouts; source material for trails.

Item Mari Sandoz to Melvin Scholl, 1961, Dec. 15 [frame 34.716]

Regarding Scholl's attempt to write a book about Crazy Horse Mountain; Sandoz's visit to Ziolkowskis.

Item Gene Gressley, University of Wyoming, 1961, Dec. 17 [frame 34.719]

Regarding Colonel Edward N. Wentworth Collection.

Item From Lydia Haag to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Dec. 17 [frame 34.720]

Regarding Sandoz's dedication to Van den Bark in Love Song to the Plains.

Item Jack R. Gage, Governor of Wyoming to Eugene Gottschalk, 1961, Dec. 19 [frame 34.726]

Regarding Sandoz Collection at University of Wyoming.

Item Mrs. Norman Beare, Black Bearto Mari Sandoz, 1961, Dec. 20 [frame 34.728]

Regarding These Were the Sioux sent to Wounded Knee School; photo on Christmas card of children at Wounded Knee School; names of children in photo listed.

Item Grant Reynard, Montclair Museum to John Voll?, 1961, Dec. 21 [frame 34.734]

Regarding Mari Sandoz; Henri paintings.

Item Ruth Ziolkowski to Mari Sandoz, 1961, Dec. 21 [frame 34.737]

Regarding Sandoz's recent visit to Crazy Horse Mountain.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lydia Haag, 1961, Dec. 27 [frame 34.763]

Regarding Melvin Van den Bark.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky, 1961, Dec. 27 [frame 34.766]

Regarding The Fiddlers Four.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ruth Ziolkowski, 1961, Dec. 27 [frame 34.769-770]

Regarding Sandoz's suggestions for Ziolkowski's mailing list.

Item Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese, Hastings House, 1961, Dec. 31 [frame 34.778]

Regarding These Were the Sioux; reviews.

Item Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth, Harper & Brothers, 1961, Dec. 31 [frame 34.781]

Regarding Love Song to the Plains.

Item Eugene Gottschalk to Mari Sandoz, 1961 [frame 34.824-826]

Regarding "Largest and Smallest Gold Nugget Chain in the World."

Item Father Peter Powell to Mari Sandoz, 1961 [frame 34.855]

Regarding Cheyenne research; Professor Fred Eggan.

Item , 1961 [frame 34.888]

Dedication Ceremonies of Catlin Monument.




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