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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 MS00149]Box 14. Folder 4. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, Captain E.S. Godfrey [frame 149.1-24] Box 14. Folder 5. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, Charley Reynolds, Custer's Chief of Scouts [frame 149.25-30]Item 1. "Truly Western: Brother of 'Lonesome Charley'" True West, p. 4 1964, July-Aug. [not filmed] Box 14. Folder 6. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, press, equipment, arms, horses [frame 149.31-71] Box 14. Folder 7. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, pack train [frame 149.72-74] Box 14. Folder 8. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, raw recruits [frame 149.75-78] Box 14. Folder 9. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, Reno Hill [frame 149.79-168] Box 14. Folder 10. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, Reno's battalion [frame 149.169-222] Box 14. Folder 11. Battle of the Little Big Horn, Reno, on the bottoms [frame 149.223-272]Item 1. Page with unidentified pictures, True West, p. 8 1963, Sept.-Oct. [not filmed] Item 2. Page section, The Reno Court of Inquiry, pp. 123-124 [not filmed] Box 14. Folder 12. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, Reno on the bottoms [frame 149.273-410] Box 14. Folder 13. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, traders [frame 149.411-413] Box 14. Folder 14. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, Yellowstone Expedition of 1876 [frame 149.414-428] Box 14. Folder 15. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, war records, National Archives [frame 149.429-441] Box 14. Folder 16. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, James Gordon Bennet, New York Herald [frame 149.442-444] Box 14. Folder 17. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, on the way to the battle [frame 149.445-454] Box 14. Folder 18. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, the battle [frame 149.455-532]Item 1. Crane, Ruth, "New Version of Custer's Last Stand" Omaha World-Herald Magazine, p. 33-G 1958, June 8 [not filmed] Item 2. "The Custer Fight" Winners of the West: Official Bulletin National Indian War Veterans U.S.A., p. 1 1944, Sept. 28 [not filmed] Box 14. Folder 19. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, after the battle [frame 149.533-561]Item 1. "Chapter 3: Dustin Describes the Re-Burials,"The Custer Myth, pp. 368-372 [not filmed] Box 14. Folder 20. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, time puzzle [frame 149.562-566]Item 1. Picture, General Winfield Scott Edgerly [not filmed] Box 14. Folder 21. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, maps, pictures [frame 149.567-571]Item 1. Maps, pictures from The Custer Myth [not filmed] Item 2. Nye, Elwood L., Marching with Custer, advertisement [not filmed] Item 3. Paxton, W.E., "Custer's Last Stand: the Painting and the Artist" True West, p. 14 1963, Sept.-Oct. [not filmed] Item 4. "Omahan's Last Stand for Custer: McAuliffe Determined to Get Heroic Bronze Statue" Omaha World-Herald Magazine, p. 3-G 1955, June 19 [not filmed] Item 5. "Benteen's Battle Map" [not filmed] Item 6. Pictures, battle period [not filmed] Box 14. Folder 22. Battle of the Little Big Horn, bibliography [frame 149.572-591]Item 1. "Dustin Bibliography,"The Custer Myth, pp. 401-405 [not filmed] Item 2. Book listing [not filmed] Box 14. Folder 23. Battle of the Little Big Horn, odds and ends [frame 149.592-630]Item 1. Birney, Hoffman, "That Last Stand" New York Times Book Review, p. 6 1955, June 19 [not filmed] Item 2. Tenth Annual Meeting Wyoming State Historical Society 1963, Sept. 7-8 Item 3. Utley, Robert M., "Custer and the Great Controversy," James C. Carr, books Item 4. "Million to be Demobilized," Omaha World-Herald [not filmed] Box 14. Folder 24. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, various individuals [frame 149.631-644] Box 14. Folder 25. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes, duplicates [frame 149.645-654] Box 14. Folder 26. Battle of the Little Big Horn, notes [frame 149.655-660] Box 14. Folder 27. Publishing report, comments from Sandoz [frame 149.661-667] Box 15. Folder 1. Cheyenne Autumn. Warner Brother's script [frame 149.668-834] Box 15. Folder 2. Cheyenne Autumn, notes, introduction [frame 149.835-903] Box 15. Folder 3. Cheyenne Autumn, notes, draft of chapter 1 [frame 149.904-931] Box 15. Folder 4. Cheyenne Autumn, forward, master copy [frame 149.932-971]



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