Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social non-conformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government's efforts to confine the La[...]

Covering more than two centuries The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Hama's Fork in what is now Wyoming in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoza's trilogy of books narrating the history o[...]

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[...]

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 hunt[...]