Mari Sandoz

First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of "the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts," Sandoz recalls. "Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything that got off the...

The account of the battle of the Little Bighorn on which General George Armstorng Custer staked his life - and lost.

The story of the hide men

Story of the trappers and traders who roamed from the St. Lawrence River to Wyoming during nearly three centuries of westward expansion. With notes on the life and habits of the beaver.