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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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Historical Records Statement: Please see our statement on historical records and 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.

Scope and Content:

The list below includes frame numbers in brackets [ ], and microfilm reel numbers. The number in brackets refers to the frame number on the microfilm reel for items listed in the folders.

Series 3: Publications and Manuscripts [Microfilm Reel MS00142]Box 1. Folder 1. Short works, "Tyrant of the Plains" Saturday Evening Post, 230, pp. 48, 140-142, 144-145 1958, June 7 [frame 142.1-2, not filmed] Box 1. Folder 2. Short works, "Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman" Scribner's Magazine, 105, pp. 20-27, 42-47, 56-62 1939, Mar. 3 [frame 142.3-4, not filmed] Box 1. Folder 3. Short works, "The Girl in the Humbert" Saturday Evening Post, 211, pp. 16-17, 84-86 1939, Mar. 4 [frame 142.5-6, not filmed] Box 1. Folder 4. Short works, "The Lost School Bus" Saturday Evening Post, 223, pp. 24-25, 51, 53, 55, 58, 61, 63-66, 69, 71-72, 74 1951, May 19 [frame 142.7-8, not filmed] Box 1. Folder 5. Short works, "Sit Your Saddle Solid" Saturday Evening Post, 217, pp. 26-27, 52-53, 56 1945, Feb. 10 [frame 142.9-10, not filmed] Box 1. Folder 6. Short works, "The Spike-Eared Dog" Saturday Evening Post, 218, pp. 24-25, 36, 38 1954, Aug. 11 [frame 142.11-12, not filmed] Box 2. Folder 1. Articles, "Anybody Can Write" Writer, 57, pp. 99-101 1944, Apr. [frame 142.13-14, not filmed] Box 2. Folder 2. Articles, "Black Hills Become Stake in a $7,000,000 Lawsuit" Lincoln State Journal 1931, Sept. 27 [frame 142.15-21] Box 2. Folder 3. Articles, "Buffalo Spring Cave" 1948, Summer [frame 142.22-26] Box 2. Folder 4. Articles, "Burial Place of Crazy Horse" Sheridan Press, Wyoming 1959, Aug. 6 [frame 142.27-28] Box 2. Folder 5. Articles, "Buried Treasure Behind Upper Boulder Falls, Also called Arapaho Falls" undated [frame 142.29-31] Box 2. Folder 6.1-6.3. Articles, "Capt. Charles King as Portrayer of the West" 1965, Feb. 4 [frame 142.32-47] Box 2. Folder 7. Articles, "The Cheyenne Indians" 1960, Jan. [frame 142.48-49] Box 2. Folder 8. Articles, "Climber of Long's Peak" (2) 1961, Feb. 16 [frame 142.50-54] Box 2. Folder 9. Articles, "Crazy Horse and He Dog Canvas" undated [frame 142.55-57] Box 2. Folder 10. Articles, "December 2006 A.D." about 1956 [frame 142.58-64] Box 2. Folder 11. Articles, "Dog Days and Mad Dogs and Treatment for Dog Bites" Lincoln State Journal 1931, July 26 [frame 142.65-67] Box 2. Folder 12. Articles, "From the Texas Longhorn to Today's Hereford" Lincoln State Journal 1931, Aug. 2 [frame 142.68-71] Box 2. Folder 13. Articles, "Frontier Days of an Immortal Man of Science" Omaha World-Herald Magazine 1933, June 25 [frame 142.72-75] Box 2. Folder 14. Articles, The Homestead in Perspective, Land Use Policy and Problems in the United States, edited by Howard W. Ottoson, University of Nebraska Press, pp. 47-62 1963 [frame 142.76-92] Box 2. Folder 15. Articles, "How I Came to Write" Baltimore Bulletin of Education, pp. 19-24 1958, May-June [frame 142.93-94, not filmed] Box 2. Folder 16. Articles, "I Remember Lincoln As Our Greenwich Village" Lincoln Evening Journal 1959, May 8 [frame 142.95-97] Box 2. Folder 17. Articles, "I Wrote a Book" Nebraska Alumnus, pp. 6-7 1935, Nov. [frame 142.98-102] Box 2. Folder 17.2. "I Wrote a Book" Writer, 43-44 1996, Feb. [frame 142.103-104, not filmed ] Box 2. Folder 18. Articles, "The Indian Looks at His Future" Family Weekly Magazine 1954, Apr. 11 [frame 142.105-111] Box 2. Folder 19. Articles, "Last of the Buffalo Bone Men" Omaha Sunday World-Herald Magazine 1932, Feb. 14 [frame 142.112-115] Box 2. Folder 20. Articles, "Lives Risked For a Drink of Water" Omaha World-Herald Magazine p. 7 1931, May 10 [frame 142.116-119] Box 2. Folder 21.1. Articles, bibliography, "The Look of the Last Frontier" American Heritage, pp. 41-53 1961, June [frame 142.120-121, not filmed] Box 2. Folder 21.2. Articles, "Dakota Territory""Bibliography for Article on Harvey Dunn" American Heritage 1961 [frame 142.122-126] Box 2. Folder 22.1-22.4. Articles, "The Lost Sitting Bull" 1957, Aug. 19, 1958, June 27 [frame 142.127-272] Box 3. Folder 1. Articles, "Love Song to Nebraska" Omaha Sunday World-Herald 1962, May 6 [frame 142.273-275] Box 3. Folder 2. Articles, "Mari Sandoz Tells Adventures of a Western Writer" Westerners Brand Book, Chicago, pp. 81-83 1956, Jan. [frame 142.276-277, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 3.1-3.2. Articles, "Nebraska" Omaha World-Herald (2) undated [frame 142.278-287] Box 3. Folder 4. Articles, "Nebraska" Holiday, pp. 103-114, 155 1956, May [frame 142.288-289, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 5. Articles, "Nebraska" Holiday 1955, June 14 [frame 142.290-318, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 6.1-6.2. Articles, master copy, "Nebraska" 1955, Sept. 13 [frame 142.319-405] Box 3. Folder 7. Articles, "The New Frontier Woman" Country Gentleman, pp. 49, 65 1936, Sept. [frame 142.406-407, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 8. Articles, "Pioneer Women" undated [frame 142.408-413] Box 3. Folder 9. Articles, "Portraying the Plains" Book News 1961, Oct. [frame 142.414-415, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 10. Articles, "The Sandhills of West Cherry" 1935, May 25 [frame 142.416-432] Box 3. Folder 11. Articles, "Soft Gold" undated [frame 142.433-435] Box 3. Folder 12. Articles, "Soft Gold" Book News, p. 39 1964, Nov.-Dec. [frame 142.436-437, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 13. Articles, "Some Notes on Wild Bill Hickok" 1953, Dec. 7 [frame 142.438-441] Box 3. Folder 14. Articles, speech, "Some Oddities of the American Indian" Denver Posse of Westerners 1954, Sept. [frame 142.442-443, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 15. Articles, "The Son" 1952, May [frame 142.444-460] Box 3. Folder 16. Articles, "Stay Home Young Writer!" Quill, pp. 8-9, 14 1937, June [frame 142.461-462, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 17. Articles, "There Were Two Sitting Bulls" Blue Book, pp. 58-65 1949, Nov. [frame 142.463-464, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 18. Articles, "There Were Two Sitting Bulls" Denver Rocky Mountain News 1950, Aug. 7 [frame 142.465-466] Box 3. Folder 19. Articles, "What I Learned From the Indians" Denver Post Empire Magazine, pp. 6-7 1952, Feb. 24 [frame 142.467-472] Box 3. Folder 20. Articles, "What the Sioux Taught Me" Reader's Digest, pp. 21-24 1952, May [frame 142.473-474, not filmed] Box 3. Folder 21. Articles, "What Should be Considered When Choosing a Profession" Daily Nebraskan, Lincoln 1932, Apr. 3 [frame 142.475-477] Box 3. Folder 22. Articles, "Midwestern Writers: Folk-Say, a Regional Miscellany" Prairie Schooner, v. 1.1, pp. 65-67 1932 [frame 142.478-482] Box 3. Folder 23. Articles, "The Look of the West" Nebraska History, 35, pp. 243-254 1954 [frame 142.483-484, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 1. Short stories, "The Bird Man" Omaha World-Herald Sunday Magazine, pp. 8, 14 1935, Feb. 10 [frame 142.485-487] Box 4. Folder 2. Short stories, "The Broken Promise" Omaha Daily News 1908, Apr. 26 [frame 142.488-489] Box 4. Folder 3. Short stories, "The Devil's Lane" Ladies Home Journal, pp. 17, 50, 52, 55, 57-58 1938, Apr. [frame 142.490-491, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 4. Short stories, "The Far Looker" undated [frame 142.492-494] Box 4. Folder 5.1. Short stories, "The Far Looker" Sight-Giver 1939, Feb. [frame 142.495-501] Box 4. Folder 5.2. Short stories, "The Far Looker" Buffalo-Head Press, New York 1962 [frame 142.502-506] Box 4. Folder 6. Short stories, rough synopsis "The Girl In the Humbert" undated [frame 142.507-512] Box 4. Folder 7. Short stories, "The Lost School Bus" Saturday Evening Post 1951, May 19 [frame 142.513-514, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 8. Short stories, "Mist and the Tall White Tower" Story, pp. 41-50 1936, Sept. [frame 142.515-516, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 9. Short stories, "Peachstone Basket" Prairie Schooner, pp. 125-36 1943, Fall [frame 142.517-526] Box 4. Folder 10. Short stories, "Pieces to a Quilt" North American Review, pp. 435-42 1933, May [frame 142.527-528, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 11. Short stories, "Pieces to a Quilt" Writer, pp. 375-78, 397, 399 1935, Oct. [frame 142.529-530, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 12. Short stories, "The Prairie Fire" Freshman Scrap Book [University of Nebraska], p. 19 1924 [frame 142.531-532] Box 4. Folder 13. Short stories, "Red Bush: The Indian Girl Who Helped Save Her People" undated [frame 142.533-537] Box 4. Folder 14. Short stories, "River Polack" Atlantic Monthly, pp. 300-308 (2) 1937, Sept. [frame 142.538-539, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 15. Short stories, "Sit Your Saddle Solid" Saturday Evening Post, pp. 26-27, 52-53, 56 1945, Feb. 10 [frame 142.540-541, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 16. Short stories, "The Smart Man" Prairie Schooner, pp. 32-43 1959, Spring [frame 142.542-551] Box 4. Folder 17. Short stories, corrected copy, "The Smart Man" 1957 [frame 142.552-571] Box 4. Folder 18. Short stories, edited "The Smart Man" 1929 [frame 142.572-593] Box 4. Folder 19. Short stories, "The Smart Man" undated [frame 142.594-614] Box 4. Folder 20. Short stories, "The Vine" Prairie Schooner, pp. 7-16 1927, Jan. [frame 142.615-624] Box 4. Folder 21. Short stories, "The Vine" undated [frame 142.625-642] Box 4. Folder 22. Short stories, "White Meteor" Ladies' Home Journal, pp. 12-13, 62, 64 1937, Jan. [frame 142.643-644, not filmed] Box 4. Folder 23. Short stories, "White Meteor" undated [frame 142.645-663] Box 4. Folder 24. Short stories, "Yuletide Saga of a Lone Tree" Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review supplement 1947, Dec. 7 [frame 142.664-665, not filmed] Box 5. Folder 1. Recollections, early draft, "Coyotes and Eagles" undated [frame 142.666-684] Box 5. Folder 2. Recollections, master copy, "Coyotes and Eagles" 1965, Jan. 29 [frame 142.685-690] Box 5. Folder 3. Recollections, "The Daughter: A Recollection" (2) 1950, Dec. 5 [frame 142.691-695] Box 5. Folder 4. Recollections, "The Daughter: A Recollection" undated [frame 142.696-699] Box 5. Folder 5. Recollections, "The Daughter: A Recollection" Midwest Review, pp. 29-30 (2) 1961 [frame 142.700-701, not filmed] Box 5. Folder 6. Recollections, "Fly Speck Billy's Cave" (2) 1948, Summer [frame 142.702-710] Box 5. Folder 7. Recollections, "The Kinkaider Comes and Goes" North American Review, pp. 422-31, 576-83 1930, Apr.-May [frame 142.711-712, not filmed] Box 5. Folder 8. Recollections, "The Kinkaider Comes and Goes: Bibliography" undated [frame 142.713-715] Box 5. Folder 9. Recollections, "Martha of the Yellow Braids" Prairie Schooner, pp. 139-44 1947, Summer [frame 142.716-723] Box 5. Folder 10. Recollections, "Mail Day at Old Jules" (2) undated [frame 142.724-728] Box 5. Folder 11. Recollections, "Musky: The True Story of a Foolish and Lovable Little Muskrat" Nature Magazine, pp. 198-202 1933, Nov. [frame 142.729-730, not filmed] Box 5. Folder 12. Recollections, "The Neighbor" Prairie Schooner, pp. 340-49 1956, Winter [frame 142.731-739] Box 5. Folder 13. Recollections, master copy "Outpost in New York" (2) 1962, May 3 [frame 142.740-772] Box 5. Folder 14. Recollections, master copy "Outpost in New York" 1962, Sept. 12 [frame 142.773-789] Box 5. Folder 15. Recollections, "Outpost in New York" Prairie Schooner, pp. 95-106 1963, Summer [frame 142.790-799] Box 5. Folder 16. Recollections, early draft, "Snakes" undated [frame 142.800-815] Box 5. Folder 17. Recollections, master copy "Snakes" 1965, Jan. 29 [frame 142.816-826] Box 5. Folder 19. Recollections, "Snakebite: A Personal Narrative" undated [frame 142.828-836]]

There is no folder 18 as it has been incorporated into folder 16 and 17.

Box 6. Folder 1. Introduction, Amos Bad Heart Bull picture history 1965, Sept. 14 [frame 142.837-850] Box 6. Folder 2. Introduction, early draft, "The Cheyenne Indians" undated [frame 142.851-863] Box 6. Folder 3. Introduction, corrected, "The Cheyenne Indians" 1962, June 27 [frame 142.864-876] Box 6. Folder 4. Introduction, early drafts, "The Cheyenne Indians" undated [frame 142.877-922] Box 6. Folder 5. Speech, "The American Writer and the World Crisis" undated [frame 142.923-925] Box 6. Folder 6. Radio address, Christmas Seals undated [frame 142.926-929] Box 6. Folder 7.1. Talk, "The Homestead in Perspective" Homestead Centennial Symposium, undated [frame 142.] Box 6. Folder 7.2. Lincoln, Nebraska 1962, June 11 [frame 142.930-1123]



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