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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 MS00143]Box 6. Folder 8. Speech, "Indian Youth at the Crossroads" Association on American Indian Affairs 1951, Apr. 18 [frame 143.1-8] Box 6. Folder 9. Radio address draft, "Library Week" 1959, Apr. 10 [frame 143.9-11] Box 6. Folder 10. Speech draft, "Nebraska 1940: Looking Both Ways" Columbus, Nebraska 1940, Sept. 18 [frame 143.12-13] Box 6. Folder 11. Speech, "Nebraska's Place in the New Literature" undated [frame 143.14-22] Box 6. Folder 12. Speech, "The Noble Red Men" Indian Days, Sheridan, Wyoming 1957, May 4 [frame 143.23-26] Box 6. Folder 13. Speech, "The Plains Indians" Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, University of Nebraska 1957, Apr. 10 [frame 143.27-33] Box 6. Folder 14. Speech excerpts, Cleveland Book and Author luncheon 1958, May 9 [frame 143.34-36] Box 6. Folder 15. Speech, "The Teaching of Writing as an Art" English teachers conference 1953, Aug. 8 [frame 143.37-49] Box 6. Folder 16.1-16.2. Book reviews by Mari Sandoz [frame 143.50-104]

Newspaper and periodical book reviews by Mari Sandoz. Some of these reviews are in manuscript form.

Box 6. Folder 17.1-17.2. Letters to the editor [frame 143.105-118]

Includes one folder of published letters to the editor by Mari Sandoz. Subjects vary but many of the letters concern the plight of the American Indian, particularly the Northern Cheyenne.

Box 6. Folder 18.1. Bibliographies, Sandoz published work and work in progress 1957 [frame 143.119-127] Box 6. Folder 18.2. Bibliography, Sandoz published work and work in progress, chronological 1962 [frame 143.128-133] Box 6. Folder 18.3. Synopses, Sandoz books 1965, Sept. 15 [frame 143.134-154] Box 6. Folder 18.4. Synopses, early drafts, books for Jim Carr catalog undated [frame 143.155-240] Box 6. Folder 19. Misc. manuscripts, "Evening Song" song by a southern Cheyenne chief undated [frame 143.241-244] Box 6. Folder 20. Limericks, Sandoz undated [frame 143.245-247] Box 6. Folder 21. Manuscripts, Sandoz collection 1966, Jan. 12 [frame 143.248-256] Box 6. Folder 22. Article, "Nebraska Vignettes" Nebraska History Magazine, p. 157 1939, Summer [frame 143.257-258, not filmed] Box 6. Folder 24. Manuscript, "Suggestions for the Problems of Conduct Page" 1930, Dec. 11 [frame 143.290-291] Box 6. Folder 25. Manuscript, "Rough Plans for Building Sod House" undated [frame 143.292-293] Box 6. Folder 26. Statement, Indian Bill, H.R. 1063 1954, Jan. 14 [frame 143.294-297] Box 6. Folder 27. Article, "To a Special Group of Blue Birds Who Are Soon to Become Camp Fire Girls" Camp Fire Girl, p. 11 1952, Dec. [frame 143.298-299, not filmed] Box 6. Folder 28. Manuscript, "To a Woman Who Made A Beautiful Garden" undated [frame 143.300-301] Box 6. Folder 29. Poem, "The Hunter" undated [frame 143.302-304] Box 6. Folder 30. Introduction, George Grinnell, A New Introduction by Mari Sandoz to the Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life, New York: Buffalo–Head Press, pp. 1-7 1962 [frame 143.305-306, not filmed] Box 7. Folder 1. On Sandoz, Clark, LaVerne Harrell. "Hi, Margurerite? This is La Verne" Roundup, pp. 6-7, 1972, Nov. [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 2. On Sandoz, "That Closer 'Second Look'" Roundup, pp. 1-2, 18-19, 4-5, 17-18, 1972, Sept.-Oct. [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 3. On Sandoz, "The View From Indian Hill: Childhood Years of Mari Sandoz" Bits and Pieces, pp. 5-13, 1972, Nov.-Dec. [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 4. On Sandoz, "Flair Personified: Mari Sandoz" Flair, pp. 66-68. , 1950, June [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 5. On Sandoz, Greenwell, Scott L., "The Literary Apprenticeship of Mari Sandoz" Nebraska History, pp. 248-72, 1976, Summer [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 6. On Sandoz, "Nebraskan" Saturday Evening Post, p. 88, 1939, Mar. 4 [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 7. On Sandoz, Nicoll, Bruce H. "Mari Sandoz: Nebraska Loner" American West, pp. 32-36, 1965, Spring [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 8. On Sandoz, Pifer, Caroline Sandoz, "The House That Old Jules Built" Omaha Sunday World-Herald Magazine of the Midlands, pp 9-12, 1975, Apr. 6 [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 9. On Sandoz, "Edited Crazy Horse: Material From the Files of Mari Sandoz" Gordon Journal, Nebraska, 1976 [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 10. On Sandoz, "Making of an Author: From the Mementoes of Mari Sandoz" Gordon Journal, Nebraska, 1972 [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 11. On Sandoz, "Sandoz Country" Omaha Sunday World-Herald, Magazine of the Midlands, pp. 13-17, 1974, Apr. 14 [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 12. On Sandoz, Rice, Minnie C. "Mari Sandoz: Biographer of the Old West" Midwest Review, pp. 44-49, 1960, Spring [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 13. On Sandoz, "Sandoz Lincoln Years Remembered" Lincoln Evening Journal, 1972, Sept. 9 [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 14. On Sandoz, Switzer, Dorothy Nott, "Mari Sandoz' Lincoln Years: A Personal Recollection" Prairie Schooner, pp. 107-115, 1971, Summer [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 15. On Sandoz, "We Point With Pride" Nebraska On the March, p. 5, 1961, Sept. [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 16. On Sandoz, MacCampbell, Donald, "Mari Sandoz Discusses Writing" Writer, 1935, Nov. [not filmed] Box 7. Folder 17. On Sandoz, unpublished manuscripts [not filmed]Item Bledsoe, Thomas, "Mari Sandoz, Escritora Norteamericana" translated by Roslyn Freeman, undated Item Gottschalk, Eugene G., "Eugene G. Gottschalk Biographical Memo", 1961 Item "Writings of Mari Sandoz... Collected by Eugene G. Gottschalk", 1961 Item "How to Write a Novel By the Mari Sandoz Method as Told to an Old Friend", undated Item Lane, Mary [Eva Mahoney], "Mari Sandoz", 1930s Item "Saga of the Sandhills and Adventures of Kinkaiders", 1930, Mar. 28 Item Weeks, Edward, "Old Jules: A Biography by Mari Sandoz", 1935? Item Williams, F. L., on Mari Sandoz, Nebraska State Journal, 1935? Item Young, Marguerite, "An Afternoon With Mari Sandoz", about 1949



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