Sandoz Studies, Volume 1

RenÉe M. Laegreid is a professor of history at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Riding Pretty: Rodeo Queens in the American West (Nebraska, 2006) and the coauthor, with Sandra K. Mathews, of Women’s Experiences on the North American Plains. Shannon D. Smith is the executive director for the Wyoming Humanities Council and an author focusing on women in the West. She is the author of Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight (Nebraska, 2008). Smith taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for seven years. John Wunder is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Echo of Its Time: The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867–1933 (Nebraska, 2018).

• List of Illustrations    Foreword, by John Wunder    Acknowledgments    Introduction    RenÉe M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith1. These Were the Sandhills Women: Stories, Images, and Mari Sandoz    RenÉe M. Laegreid2. The Vine    Mari Sandoz3. The Gender of Drought in Mari Sandoz’s “The Vine”    Lisa Pollard4. Excerpt from Slogum House    Mari Sandoz5. Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House: Greed as Woman    Glenda Riley6. Excerpt from “What the Sioux Taught Me”    Mari Sandoz7. Women in These Were the Sioux: Mari Sandoz’s Portrayal of Gender    Shannon D. Smith8. Sandoz Constructing Women with “Well-Knit Bone and Nerve”: Androgyny and Activism on the Great Plains    Jillian WenburgBibliography    List of Contributors    Index

"Sandoz's excerpts and the interpretive essays are interesting and well paired, making this little book a valuable contribution to 'expanding interest and research into Sandoz and her work.' It will be ideal for Sandoz Studies and appeal to diverse readers' book groups, and high school and university classes."-Betsy Downey, Great Plains Quarterly "This new Sandoz Studies series promises to consolidate and advance the state of Sandoz scholarship for Nebraska and to deepen literary consciousness for the entirety of the Great Plains."-Thomas D. Isern, South Dakota History