As a historian and as a novelist Mari Sandoz (1896 1966) stands in the front rank of western writers: in the words of John K. Hutchens, "no one in our time wrote better than the late Mari Sandoz did, or with more authority and grace, about as many aspects of the old West." This first full-length biography is particularly concerned to show the relationship between Sandoz's life and experiences and her writing.
Drawing heavily on materials in the Mari Sandoz Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln correspondence to and from Sandoz, her research notes, and manuscripts and on...
As a historian and as a novelist Mari Sandoz (1896 1966) stands in the front rank of western writers: in the words of John K. Hutchens, "no one in our...
