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from A Year of Morning Thanks
Mari Sandoz
Mari Sandoz wanted to know what Native life was like, so in 1930, along with a friend, she took off in Model T and visited reservations in Montana, Wyoming, and both Dakotas. She used that research to write a number of books, including her biography of Crazy Horse, which came out in 1942, and is, really, one of the first books to picture the Indian wars from a Native point of view.
Because she was such a meticulous researcher, she wanted to see things like old battlefields, close-up and first hand. When their old Model T quit on them, those two women put it back together themselves.
Mari Sandoz, the daughter of a Nebraska pioneer, could never really escape her own native Great Plains. "I always come back to the Middle West. There's a vigor here, and a broadness of horizon," she said.
She was born out in the Nebraska sandhills, 112 years ago, plus just a few days. Won't be long and I'll be back in her country, although I'm never far.
I’m thankful for Mari Sandoz, and thankful for her stories and her story.
Because she was such a meticulous researcher, she wanted to see things like old battlefields, close-up and first hand. When their old Model T quit on them, those two women put it back together themselves.
Mari Sandoz, the daughter of a Nebraska pioneer, could never really escape her own native Great Plains. "I always come back to the Middle West. There's a vigor here, and a broadness of horizon," she said.
She was born out in the Nebraska sandhills, 112 years ago, plus just a few days. Won't be long and I'll be back in her country, although I'm never far.
I’m thankful for Mari Sandoz, and thankful for her stories and her story.
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