MICROFILM Reel #MS00034

July 1961 through December 1961
[see frame 30 for July 3, 1961 letter out of sequence]

July 4, 1961 [9-10]
Mari Sandoz to Albert S. Bennett
Regarding advice on Bennett's writings, Enter Lavinia, Ravished

July 4,1961 [13]
Mari Sandoz to Harry F. Porter
Regarding Nebraska article for Holiday magazine

July 5, 1961 [17]
Mari Sandoz to Homer Croy
Regarding Dvoraks of Nebraska

July 5, 1961 [20]
Mari Sandoz to Julian Seaman
Regarding pianos on the plains

August 5, 1961 [21-22] [letter out of sequence]
Mari Sandoz to Margot Liberty
Regarding Crazy Horse; Custer battlefield; carvings in the rocks; Oglala source materials

July 6, 1961 [26]
Mari Sandoz to Caroline Sauer [McIntosh & Otis]
Regarding "Musky"; Buffalo Hunters; Love Song to the Plains

July 6, 1961 [27]
Marshall A. Best [Viking Publishers] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Josephy's Patriot Chiefs

July 3, 1961 [30] [letter out of sequence]
Margot Liberty to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Eddie Sandcrane; Cheyennes; Crazy Horse; sandstone carvings at Reno Creek; John Stands in Timber

July 9, 1961 [ 31]
Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky
Regarding publishers to try

July 11, 1961 [36]
M.S. Wyeth to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Love Song to the Plains; Sandoz's itinerary for fall 1961

July 12, 1961 [37]
Gene Price to Mari Sandoz
Regarding military "Indian Fighters" of 1860s; Spotted Tail source material

July 12, 1961 [38]
Mari Sandoz to Stuart Harris [Harpers ?]
Regarding Sandoz's fall itinerary; Love Song to the Plains appearances; blurbs for the book are not to be solicited

July 18, 1961 [48]
Mari Sandoz to Alvin Josephy
Regarding Patriot Chiefs; Spotted Tail

July 18, 1961 [49]
Note: Flowers wired for L.W. Van Vleet [Boss Van Vleet]

July 19, 1961 [52]
Mari Sandoz to Marshall A. Best
Regarding Patriot Chiefs

July 20, 1961 [53]
Alvin Josephy to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Patriot Chiefs; acknowledgement of Sandoz's help

July 20, 1961 [54]
Bill [Killoy? O'Kelley? Name guessed by Mari Sandoz. See also frames 440-442] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding a Crow Indian named Ties His Knees

July 20, 1961 [55]
Poem about Ties His Knees

July 20, 1961 [61]
Mari Sandoz to Ralph Mueller
Regarding Old Jules; Plains Indians' child raising practices; diapers for Indian babies; dogs among tribal people

July 22, 1961 [67-69]
Mari Sandoz to Gene Price
Regarding "Harney, Chivington and Custer, et al."; Spotted Tail; Hyde's Spotted Tail; Ash Hollow

July 24, 1961 [72]
Mari Sandoz to Helen Buttrick
Regarding Harvey Dunn articles

July 24, 1961 [74-80]
Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky
Regarding opening for Fiddlers Four

July 25, 1961 [83-84]
Bernard Milofsky to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Fiddlers Four

July 26, 1961 [85]
Mari Sandoz to Dick Williams
Regarding Frenchman killed at Bear Butte, buried in a cave

July 27, 1961 [86-87]
Dick Williams to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Cattlemen; grave of the Frenchman found [This might be the Amiotte grave. K.L.]

July 29, 1961 [88]
Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell
Regarding The Story Catcher material; Cheyennes; confusion over Medicine Arrow

August 3, 1961 [101]
Mari Sandoz to Arnold Cayser
Regarding letters; hunting; Alvin Josephy

August 3, 1961 [109]
Mari Sandoz to Gene Price
Regarding Brummett Echohawk; Price's junket to the West

August 5, 1961 [115]
Mari Sandoz to Homer Ayres
Regarding John Birch Society; Banditti of the Plains

August 5, 1961 [117-118]
Mari Sandoz to Margot Liberty
[Same letter as on frames 21-22]
Regarding Crazy Horse; Custer battlefield; carvings in the rocks; Oglala source materials

August 8, 1961 [129-130]
Mari Sandoz to Jack C. Best
Regarding Tom Horn

August 8, 1961 [133]
Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Frank Donahoe
Regarding Cozad family ties

August 8, 1961 [139-140]
Mari Sandoz to F.E. Shaw
Regarding Sandhills families and dances; "locoed" horses

August 8, 1961 [141]
Mari Sandoz to Cheyenne Tribal Council
Regarding Cheyenne Autumn sent to the tribe

August 10, 1961 [147]
Mari Sandoz to Marguerite [Young?]
Regarding Edgar Allen Poe

August 11, 1961 [148-149]
Perry Branch [University of Nebraska Foundation] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Prairie Schooner award

August 14, 1961 [156]
Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding These Were the Sioux

August 15, 1961 [159]
Gene M. Gressley [University of Wyoming] to Eugene Gottschalk
Regarding Gottschalk donating his "Sandoz collection" to the University of Wyoming

August 17, 1961 [161]
Walter Frese [Hastings House] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding news of "Mari Sandoz Week"; Sandoz's itinerary; The Cattlemen review; Old Jules in paperback

August 19, 1961 [165]
Mari Sandoz to Mary B. Forsyth
Regarding Yeffe Kimball; Alvina Mofsie, a Winnebago dancer; best sources for Indian information

August 19, 1961 [166]
Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese [Hastings House]
Regarding "Mari Sandoz Week"; itinerary and autographing while in Nebraska; Old Jules; Crazy Horse

August 19, 1961 [168]
Mari Sandoz to Rose Van Vleet
Regarding death of "Boss" [L.W.] Van Vleet

August 21, 1961 [171]
Gene Price to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Price's visit to Pine Ridge; Whitney Museum in Cody, Wyoming

August 23, 1961 [173]
Stanley Smith to Mari Sandoz
Regarding bust of John Neihardt in Capitol in Lincoln

August 27, 1961 [179]
Mari Sandoz to Peter Decker
Regarding Benedict Arnold

August 27, 1961 [183]
Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers]
Regarding Milofsky's Fiddlers Four

August 28, 1961 [193]
Alvin Josephy [American Heritage] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding American Heritage Book on Indians

August 28, 1961 [195-196]
John G. Neihardt to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Neihardt's bust to be placed in the Capitol building in Lincoln; Black Elk Speaks reprinted by University of Nebraska Press

August 28, 1961 [198]
Mari Sandoz to Willis Blenkinsop
Regarding Custer in Texas; Cheyennes; Sacred Arrows

August 28, 1961 [205-206]
Mari Sandoz to Norma Kidd Green
Regarding LaFlesche materials; suggestions for television docu-drama

August 29, 1961 [214]
Sam J. Ervin, Jr. to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of American Indians

[215]
Questionnaire regarding American Indians

August 29, 1961 [219-220]
Father Peter Powell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Young Medicine Arrow confused with "Old" Medicine Arrow; Sacred Hat renewal ceremony; Crazy Horse; locating the "Prowers Notebook"; Sacred Wheel Bundle; Alice Marriott and Carol Rachlin; Sacred Arrows captured by the Pawnees

August 30, 1961 [226-227]
Eugene Gottschalk to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Gottschalk/Sandoz letters; collection at University of Wyoming

August 30, 1961 [228]
M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Milofsky's Fiddlers Four rejected

August 30, 1961 [230]
Mari Sandoz to Jim Carr
Regarding Bureau of Ethnology Reports

September 2, 1961 [237]
Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell
Regarding renewal ceremony for the Sacred Hat

September 4, 1961 [238-239]
Mari Sandoz to Father Peter Powell
Regarding Box Elder, a Northern Cheyenne with Dull Knife; Brave Wolf

September 4, 1961 [242]
Mari Sandoz to Buz [M.S. Wyeth] [Harper & Brothers]
Regarding Bernard Milofsky's Fiddlers Four

September 6, 1961 [253]
Mari Sandoz to Buz [M.S. Wyeth] [Harper & Brothers]
Regarding Love Song to the Plains

September 8, 1961 [262]
Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky
Regarding Fiddlers Four

September 15, 1961 [278]
Mary Bryan Forsyth to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Love Song to the Plains

September 17, 1961 [284-286]
Rose Van Vleet to Mari Sandoz
Regarding life since the death of "Boss" Van Vleet; a book of his life

September 21, 1961 [299]
"Some Sources on Standing Bear, the Ponca Chief"

September 25, 1961 [305]
Korczak Ziolkowski to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz's upcoming visit to the Black Hills; photo of Crazy Horse

September 25, 1961 [309]
Mari Sandoz to Charles Barrett
Regarding how These Were the Sioux came to be

September 25, 1961 [315]
Mari Sandoz to Rose Van Vleet
Regarding a book about "Boss" Van Vleet

September 25, 1961 [316-317]
Mari Sandoz to WCBS-TV
Regarding Saul Levitt's script on the trial of Standing Bear [Ponca]; copyrights; public domain

September 28, 1961 [326]
Mari Sandoz to Korczak Ziolkowski
Regarding The Story Catcher; Sandoz's upcoming visit. [Dawn in The Story Catcher named in honor of Ziolkowski's daughter]

October 3, 1961 [337]
Mary Abbot to Walter Frese
Regarding These Were the Sioux

October 4, 1961 [340]
Mari Sandoz to Mary Abbot [McIntosh & Otis]
Regarding These Were the Sioux; Love Song to the Plains; The Story Catcher

October 4, 1961 [341]
Mari Sandoz to Reva Evans
Regarding John Gordon; Gordon, Nebraska

October 5, 1961 [346]
Mary Abbot to Clarkson Potter
Regarding Sandoz's "touring" schedule; Son of a Gamblin' Man

October 7, 1961 [352]
Mari Sandoz to Norma R. Youngberg
Regarding permission to use examples of Sandoz's work in a book about writing

October 9, 1961 [353-354]
Don Beckman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding life in San Francisco

October 10, 1961 [361]
Mari Sandoz to Mrs. F.M. Tuttle [University of Nebraska Press]
Regarding materials for Old Jules reprint; Dwight Kirsch photos

October 11, 1961 [365-367]
Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Love Song to the Plains; Ron Hull and KUON-TV; John Neihardt

October 12, 1961 [370]
Mari Sandoz to Don Beckman
Regarding Beckman in the military

October 12, 1961 [374]
Mari Sandoz to Alvin Josephy
Regarding The American Heritage Book of Indians; Merrival news column from Pine Ridge

October 15, 1961 [383-384]
Mari Sandoz to Sam J. Ervin [Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of American Indians] Regarding Plains Indians; Sandoz's response to Ervin's questionnaire

October 20, 1961 [406]
Ron Hull [KUON-TV] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz to do another television interview while in Lincoln

October 20, 1961 [412]
M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding "The Father Point Book"

October 12, 1961 [413]
Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese [Hastings House]
Regarding "The Father Point Book"; Flatheads

October 23, 1961 [423-424]
Mari Sandoz to Mark Miller [Sioux City Journal]
Regarding Sandoz's upcoming trip west; photos of Sandoz and family; Sandoz's Sioux City connections

October 24, 1961 [428]
Mari Sandoz to Gene Gressley [University of Wyoming]
Regarding brochure for "Western History Research Center" at University of Wyoming Library; Grace Hebard Collection; Taggart diaries

October 24, 1961 [432]
Mari Sandoz to Dr. K. Ross Toole
Regarding a play by William O'Kelly, Grandpa Two Medicine

October 25, 1961 [434]
Mari Sandoz to Leonard Veeder
Regarding Crazy Horse's relatives, descendants

October 25, 1961 [438]
Don Barnhart [He Dog School] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz books; a brief history of He Dog School; James George Wright, Indian agent at Rosebud

October 25, 1961 [440-441]
William O'Kelly [see also frames 54-55] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding writing plays

October 25, 1961 [442]
A short poem by William O'Kelly

October 31, 1961 [472]
Alice Marriott to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Marriott and Carol Rachlin attended "Westerners" with Sandoz

October 31, 1961 [475-476]
Eugene Gottschalk to G.M. Gressley [University of Wyoming]
Regarding Gottschalk/Sandoz Collection

October 31, 1961 [477]
M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding reviews of Love Song to the Plains

November 1, 1961 [486-487]
Walter Frese [Hastings House] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding orders for These Were the Sioux

November 9, 1961 [524]
Gene Gressley to Eugene Gottschalk
Regarding the Gottschalk/Sandoz Collection at the University of Wyoming

[525-529]
Listing of materials in the Gottschalk/Sandoz Collection

November 9, 1961 [532]
Buz [M.S. Wyeth] [Harper & Brothers] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding merger with Row, Peterson & Co. to become Harper & Row

November 13, 1961 [537]
Jim Carr to Lester G. Wells [Rare Book Room, Syracuse University]
Regarding Sandoz materials; These Were the Sioux manuscript

Circa November 14, 1961 [539-540]
Irma Freyer to Mari Sandoz
Regarding diaries of a mule-team trip from Omaha to Oakland, California

November 16, 1961 [542-543]
Mark H. Brown to Walter Frese
Regarding Western Americana reprints; Sandoz queries; The Frontier Years; Before Barbed Wire; Plainsmen of Yellowstone

November 20, 1961 [553-554]
Mari Sandoz to Harvey Little Thunder
Regarding source material in Sandoz files regarding Little Thunder; Little Thunder, Jr. [a sort of chronology]

November 21, 1961 [557]
Ron Hull [KUON-TV] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Neihardt dedication at the Capitol in Lincoln; a Sandoz and Neihardt program

November 24, 1961 [570-573]
Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Love Song to the Plains reviews; Ben [Benjamin] Botkin; Thomas Wolfe; Ruth Pike

November 26, 1961 [578-584]
Robert W. Lewis to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Crazy Horse; interest in western Americana and Indian writings; Lewis's background, trip to Pine Ridge; Jake Hermann; Indian "heroes"

November 26, 1961 [593]
John G. Noll to Mari Sandoz
Regarding American Heritage article about artist Harvey Dunn

November 27, 1961 [598]
Mark H. Brown to Mari Sandoz
Regarding the "Sioux Question"

November 27, 1961 [600]
Mari Sandoz to Don Barnhart [He Dog School]
Regarding Harvey Little Thunder; someone should write a book about Little Thunder

November 27, 1961 [610]
Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Jack Meldrum
Regarding Robert Meldrum of Fort Sarpy; references and sources

November 27, 1961 [612]
Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicoll [University of Nebraska Press]
Regarding Harvey Little Thunder and his wife Trudy Bordeaux; Bettelyoun manuscript; Sandoz lobbies for "more action" on Bettelyoun manuscript

November 28, 1961 [624]
Mari Sandoz to Kay Rogers
Regarding the Harvey Dunn article; Alida Malkus; television docu-drama about Indian trials; death of James Thurber

November 29, 1961 [631]
Senator Fern Hubbard Orme to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Neihardt dedication in Lincoln

November 29, 1961 [634]
Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith
Regarding reviews; going to the Northwest; events concerning Sandoz's books in print

November 29, 1961 [638]
Mari Sandoz to Don Ward
Regarding suggestions for articles; Pat Hall; Don Barnhart; Harvey Little Thunder

November 29, 1961 [639]
Colonel B.F. Stahl to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Historical Trail for Boy Scouts in Nebraska

November 30, 1961 [647]
Bruce Nicoll to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Harvey Little Thunder; John Stands in Timber

November 30, 1961 [649-650]
Suttons to Mari Sandoz
Regarding historical societies in Kansas; Benkelman, Nebraska; Custer in Kansas

December 3, 1961 [662]
Mari Sandoz to Robert Lewis
Regarding Crazy Horse; Bear Butte; feelings toward Indians

December 3, 1961 [663]
Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky
Regarding Anais Nin

December 3, 1961 [665]
Mari Sandoz to Senator Fern Hubbard Orme
Regarding Neihardt dedication

December 6, 1961 [668]
Bernard Milofsky to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Anais Nin; The Fiddlers Four; multiple sclerosis

December 7, 1961 [668]
Gene Gressley [University of Wyoming] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Gottschalk/Sandoz Collection

[671-672]
News release of Sandoz Collection at University of Wyoming

December 9, 1961 [681-682]
Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky
Regarding Sandoz has Anais Nin autograph a book for Milofsky; multiple sclerosis treatment

December 11, 1961 [685-686]
Gene Gottschalk to Mari Sandoz
Regarding newspaper item describing Gottschalk’s donation to University of Wyoming

December 11, 1961 [696]
Mari Sandoz to Colonel B.F. Stahl
Regarding Historic Trail for Boy Scouts; source material for trails

December 15, 1961 [716]
Mari Sandoz to Melvin Scholl
Regarding Scholl’s attempt to write a book about Crazy Horse Mountain; Sandoz’s visit to Ziolkowskis

December 17, 1961 [719]
Gene Gressley [University of Wyoming]
Regarding Colonel Edward N. Wentworth Collection

December 17, 1961 [720]
From Lydia Haag to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz’s dedication to Van den Bark in Love Song to the Plains

December 19, 1961 [726]
Jack R. Gage [Governor of Wyoming] to Eugene Gottschalk
Regarding Sandoz Collection at University of Wyoming

December 20, 1961 [728]
Mrs. Norman Beare [Black Bear] to Mari Sandoz
Regarding These Were the Sioux sent to Wounded Knee School; photo on Christmas card of children at Wounded Knee School; names of children in photo listed

December 21, 1961 [734]
Grant Reynard [Montclair Museum] to John [Voll?]
Regarding Mari Sandoz; Henri paintings

December 21, 1961 [737]
Ruth Ziolkowski to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz’s recent visit to Crazy Horse Mountain

December 27, 1961 [763]
Mari Sandoz to Lydia Haag
Regarding Melvin Van den Bark

December 27, 1961 [766]
Mari Sandoz to Bernard Milofsky
Regarding The Fiddlers Four

December 27, 1961 [769-770]
Mari Sandoz to Ruth Ziolkowski
Regarding Sandoz’s suggestions for Ziolkowski’s mailing list

December 31, 1961 [778]
Mari Sandoz to Walter Frese [Hastings House]
Regarding These Were the Sioux; reviews

December 31, 1961 [781]
Mari Sandoz to M.S. Wyeth [Harper & Brothers]
Regarding Love Song to the Plains

N.D., Circa 1961 [824-826]
Eugene Gottschalk to Mari Sandoz
Regarding "Largest and Smallest Gold Nugget Chain in the World"

Circa 1961 [855]
Father Peter Powell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Cheyenne research; Professor Fred Eggan

Circa 1961 [888]
Dedication Ceremonies of Catlin Monument