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Jan 1, 1896 — Jan 1, 1966· 70 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA

Mari Sandoz

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Mari Susette Sandoz (May 11, 1896 – March 10, 1966) was an American novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher. She became one of the West's foremost writers, and wrote extensively about pioneer life and the Plains Indians.

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NOW IT WAS THE NIGHT, BUT THERE WERE NO FRIENDLY clouds to run before the face of the climbing moon.

— from Cheyenne autumn

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Crazy Horse

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Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than one hundred and twenty years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche, Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure, whose betrayal by white representatives of the U.S. government was a tragic turning point in the history of the West. A mythic figure puzzled over by generations of historians, Crazy Horse emerges from McMurtry's sensitive portrait as the poignant hero of a long-since-vanished epoch. Marking the debut of the new Penguin Lives series, McMurtry's Crazy Horse is a masterly exemplar of biography in the short form, illuminating both the man and the age with the eloquent economy that will introduce to a new generation of readers this once-popular genre. - Jacket flap.

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Cheyenne autumn

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In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the US government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight.

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The Battle of the Little Bighorn

1966

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Account of the battle in which General Custer lost his life with emphasis on the background of the tragedy and analysis of Custer's motives and political ambitions. A portion of this book has appeared in American Heritage under the title, "The Grisly Epilogue."

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