Cheyenne Autumn: An American Epic

History

Sandoz, Mari

Americas

Avon/Books

Slogum House

An American Epic. In quest of their homeland over 1500 miles distant, a band of Northern Cheyennes fled the Oklahoma reservation in September, 1878, on what would be one of the most harrowing and courageous treks in the history of the American West. The 278 Cheyennes, fewer than half of them adults, under the dual chieftancy of Little Wolf and Dull Knife, had been half-starved by their forced encampment. They had little ammunition and few guns and horses. . .

Cheyenne Autumn

"The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade, takes the reader far inside a world of rituals surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle.

These Were the Sioux

Children's Books

Dell

The Horsecatcher

A Cheyenne Indian youth dreams of catching and taming wild mustangs but comes to realize he must earn the privilege of doing as he chooses

Demco Media

In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver—a mere boy—are stranded in the open country, miles and miles from the nearest ranchhouse. Thus Mari Sandoz introduces a situation that will stretch the limits of human endurance. 
The exposed little group is armed with no more than the lunches they started out with and only the clothing required for a normal winter's day. As a killer storm takes hold and the mercury plunges below zero they become desperate. How each character facesthe terrifying prospect of freezing to death is a story that has become a small classic. And because it is based upon fact—the author's niece experienced much the same ordeal in the paralyzing midwestern blizzard of January 1949—it has the ring of undisputed truth.
Winter Thunder has been named by the Reader’s Digest as one of the ten best American short novels.

Winter Thunder

Westminster Press

A Cheyenne Indian youth dreams of catching and taming wild mustangs but comes to realize he must earn the privilege of doing as he chooses

Horsecatcher

Animals

Westminster/John Knox Press

The Battle of the Little Bighorn

The Battle Of The Little Bighorn

BOOKS-ON-TAPE, INC.

In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in the Yellowstone country. This saga of their heart-breaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight is by the author of Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas and Old Jules, also available as Bison Books.

Teen & Young Adult

Bt Bound

Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father’s house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an Edison phonograph and boxes of cylinder records from the East, paying for them with an inheritance and ignoring debts, to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife. But the entire family soon entered into the holiday spirit as neighbors arrived to feast and dance and enjoy musical selections ranging from Lucia di Lammermoor to Casey at the Telephone. Even old enmities dissolved under the spell, for, as Old Jules said, “The music is for everybody.”A classic in the tradition of Dylan Thomas’s Child’s Christmas in Wales and Truman Capote’s Christmas Memory, this story by the famous author of Old Jules was first published posthumously in December 1966.

The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection

Literature & Fiction

Univ. Of Nebraska Press

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Cheyenne Autumn: An American Epic

Slogum House

Cheyenne Autumn

These Were the Sioux

The Horsecatcher

Winter Thunder

Horsecatcher

The Battle Of The Little Bighorn

Cheyenne Autumn

The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection