Mari Sandoz

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1959
  • Latest Book:
    January 2015
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Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • Hostiles and Friendlies

    Here in one volume are Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country; a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and the Oglala) and other Indian pieces; a novelette, Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman; and nine short stories, mostly w...

  • Son Of The Gamblin' Man

    The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, [who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert Henri.' This tale is essentially Robert's story, the...

  • Miss Morissa

    Miss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the East and a heartbreaking past, Morissa Kirk finds the North Platte River Valley rife with rumors of gold strikes. ...

  • Slogum House

    Slogum House "lay on the winter flat of Oxbow like the remains of some great, hulking animal that had foraged the region long ago, leaving its old gray carcass to dry and bleach at the foot of the hogback." Ruled by Gulla Slogum, the house was headqu...

  • Capital City

    First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz’s angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s -- John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Jack Conroy’s The Disin...

  • The Tom-Walker

    A hold, biting novel by the author of Old Jules and Crazy Horse, The Tom-Walker spans three generations in a Midwestern family.

    The patriarch, Milt Stone, who lost a leg fighting in Grant's army, is the Tom-Walker, circus slang for man on stilts....

  • Winter Thunder

    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 stret...

  • The Story Catcher

    Young Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his seeing medicine. With eyes growing sharper, he watches the warring between tribes, the buffalo hunting,...

  • The Horsecatcher

    Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she creates a youthful protagonist many read...



  • Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist

    The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, [who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert Henri.' This tale is essentially Robert's story, the st...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mari Sandoz has published 10 books.

Mari Sandoz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist, was published in January 2015.

The first book by Mari Sandoz, Hostiles and Friendlies, was published in February 1959.

No. Mari Sandoz does not write books in series.
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