%1 http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/ en Margaret Coel http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/margaret-coel <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Margaret Coel</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/users/yongli" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">yongli</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'time' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> <time datetime="2019-01-08T14:36:04-07:00" title="Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 14:36" class="datetime">Tue, 01/08/2019 - 14:36</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'addtoany_standard' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * addtoany-standard--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * addtoany-standard--node.html.twig x addtoany-standard.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/margaret-coel" data-a2a-title="Margaret Coel"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoloradoencyclopedia.org%2Farticle%2Fmargaret-coel&amp;title=Margaret%20Coel"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><p class="rtecenter"><img alt="Margaret Coel" src="/sites/default/files/Margaret_Coel.jpg" style="width: 480px; height: 586px;" /></p>&#13; &#13; <p>Margaret Coel (1937– ) is a <em>New</em> <em>York</em> <em>Times</em> best-selling author of both fiction and nonfiction. She is best known for her <em>Wind River</em> <em>Mystery Series</em> but has also published five nonfiction books, a book of short stories, and two additional mystery novels that take place in <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/denver"><strong>Denver</strong></a>. She is a fourth-generation Coloradan who has dedicated her writing career to the state and its history.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Margaret Coel’s family ties to Colorado go back to the year 1865. She is the daughter of Samuel F. Speas and Margaret McCloskey Speas. Coel’s mother, Margaret Speas, was an executive secretary for a large architectural firm for seventeen years until she decided to retire and stay home with her kids. Coel’s father, Samuel F. Spears, was a locomotive engineer for the <strong>Colorado &amp; Southern Railroad</strong>.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Margaret Coel comes from a long line of pioneer railroaders. She and her father collaboratively wrote the book <em>Goin’ Railroading</em>, which tells a first-person story of railroading in the mountains and plains of Colorado. This work draws heavily on the stories passed down from her father and grandfather and details her family’s involvement in the railroad as well as the romance and difficulties of early railroad life. <em>Goin’ Railroading</em>, along with <em>Chief Left Hand</em>, has been listed by the Colorado Historical Society (now <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/history-colorado-colorado-historical-society"><strong>History</strong> <strong>Colorado</strong></a>) as among the 100 best books on Colorado’s history.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Early Life</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>Coel was born and raised in Denver. She attended and graduated from the Holy Family High School in Denver in 1955. While attending Holy Family High School she was involved in the school newspaper and the school’s theater productions, including its annual Gilbert and Sullivan show. Coel spent many of her early years writing. She wrote everything from short stories to newspaper articles. She said she knew from a very young age that she wanted to be a professional writer, a dream that inspired her to pursue a bachelor’s degree in journalism.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>After high school, Coel attended Marquette University, where she graduated in 1960 with a degree in journalism and a minor in French literature. In 1961 she married her husband, George W. Coel, a dentist in the Air Force. Together they had three children. Tragedy struck the family when their son Bill Coel passed away in 1976 at the age of thirteen. The couple currently has two daughters, Kristin Coel Henderson and Lisa Coel Harrison, who have provided them with six grandchildren.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>The Coels moved to Alaska in 1961, following George Coel’s reassignment to Eielson Air Force Base outside of Fairbanks. They remained in Alaska until 1963, when they settled in <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/boulder"><strong>Boulder</strong></a>, their current home.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Career</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>Coel began her writing career shortly after graduating from Marquette University in 1960. While living in Alaska, she began freelancing for newspapers and magazines. Soon after returning to Colorado, she took a job as a reporter for the <em>Westminster Journal</em>, a small paper in the Denver suburb of <strong>Westminster</strong>. She covered almost everything that was going on in the small town, from city council meetings to the sheriff’s office. Coel says this is where she really learned how to do research and put it together into a story—a necessary skillset for writing a historical novel.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Soon after moving back to Colorado, she became interested in <a href="/article/niwot-left-hand"><strong>Niwot</strong></a>—also known as Chief Left Hand—an Arapaho leader who allowed the first white prospectors to camp near present-day Boulder. Coel set out to write an article for a western magazine about Niwot, but after extensive research she realized she had enough information to write a book. In 1981 Coel completed her book, <em>Chief Left Hand</em>, which was published by the University of Oklahoma Press.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Coel has said she writes about the Arapaho people because they are Colorado people, even though most now live on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The Arapaho still have a very close affinity with Colorado and still consider it their home. She was also drawn to the Arapaho because they were diplomats and traders as well as warriors, activities that run counter to their traditional depiction in Western American lore. Coel maintains that one of the goals of her work is to get people to know the Arapahos as more than just warriors.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Coel first began visiting the Wind River Reservation in the 1970s when she was researching Chief Left Hand. During this time, she met many Arapahos who became and remain her dear friends. She spent a lot of time speaking to the elders and listening to their oral histories of early life on the plains. Coel attended the sun dance, <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/sweat-lodge-0"><strong>sweat lodge</strong></a> ceremonies, feasts, and powwows. Some of her Arapaho friends have read through her manuscripts to make sure the information was correct and to give her feedback on the stories. In addition to her time talking with people on the reservation, she spent countless hours doing archival research there.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>From History to Mystery</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>Coel has said her transition from nonfiction to fiction was difficult, but she maintains that “underneath every writer is a would-be novelist.” Coel realized that she had never tried writing fiction before and wanted to see if she could do it. She says the main difference in writing the two is that “in nonfiction you can tell the story, while in fiction you have to show the story.”</p>&#13; &#13; <p>After four years of work, Coel’s first mystery novel, <em>The Eagle Catcher</em>, was published in 1995 by the University Press of Colorado. During the same four-year period, she also wrote two nonfiction books and a dozen articles.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Coel has said she chose mystery over other fiction genres because the situations that unfold in mysteries requires the characters to “put up their best game in what are often life and death situations.” She also believes that readers can learn a lot about how the world works from mystery novels. One of Coel’s themes in all of her books is the importance of understanding history. She has said that she wants her books to help people understand that their actions have a lasting effect on the world and that things done 100 years ago—both good and bad—are still being felt in the present. One of her other stated goals is to help others gain an appreciation for different people and cultures.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Awards</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>Coel’s <em>Chief Left Hand</em> received numerous awards, including the Best Non-Fiction Book Award from the National Association of Press Women in 1982, and it was named one of the best 100 books on Colorado History by the Colorado Historical Society (now <strong>History Colorado</strong>) in 2001.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Her fictional works have also received praise. She received five Colorado book awards for her <em>Wind River</em> <em>Mystery Series</em> and another for her novel <em>The Spirit Woman </em>(2000). <em>The Spirit Woman </em>also won a Willa Cather Award, which recognizes outstanding literature about life on the Great Plains.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Coel’s other awards include the Frank Waters Award and the High Plains Emeritus Award in 2010, both of which recognize lifetime literary achievement. Coel has also been a keynote speaker at numerous events and has been invited to appear as a guest of honor at multiple book festivals.</p>&#13; &#13; <h2>Today</h2>&#13; &#13; <p>Margaret Coel still lives in Boulder, where she says she is “sort of” retired, barring sudden inspiration for another novel. Coel still writes, though it is mostly newsletters and Facebook posts. After twenty books, she considers her Wind River series complete. If she were going to write another novel it would most likely be featuring the character Catherin McLeod, an urban Arapaho woman who works as an investigative reporter for a major Denver newspaper. This character comes from the Catherin McLeod mystery series, which currently has two installments.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>In reflecting on her life, she said, “I did what I wanted to do. I wanted to write about Colorado’s history and its people and I did that” and that she “had a good time doing it.”</p>&#13; </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-author--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-author.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-author.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-author"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-author">Author</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-author"><a href="/author/massimi-alex" hreflang="und">Massimi, Alex</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-keyword--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-keyword.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-keyword.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-keyword field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-keyword"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-keyword">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/margaret-coel" hreflang="en">margaret coel</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/author" hreflang="en">Author</a></div> <div 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Coel, Interview by David Montgomery, <em>Crime</em> <em>Fiction</em> <em>Blog,</em> August 9, 2005</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Margaret Coel, interview by Alexander Massimi, March 20, 2018, Boulder, Colorado.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Margaret Coel, interview by Jeff Rutherford, <em>Reading and Writing Podcast</em>, March 10, 2011.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Margaret Coel, “Off The Page,” Presentation at Broomfield Library, Broomfield, Colorado, November 8, 2014.</p>&#13; </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-additional-information-htm--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-information-htm field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-additional-information-htm">Additional Information</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"><p><a href="https://margaretcoel.com/">Margaret Coel, official website </a></p>&#13; &#13; <p>Sandra Dallas, “<a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/01/margaret-coel-releases-last-in-wind-river-series-but-shes-not-done-with-writing/">Margaret Coel Releases Last in Wind River Series, but She’s Not Done With Writing</a>,” <em>The Denver Post</em>, September 1, 2016.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Fiction Database, “<a href="https://www.fictiondb.com/author/margaret-coel~18527.htm">Margaret Coel</a>,” n.d.</p>&#13; </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:36:04 +0000 yongli 3002 at http://coloradoencyclopedia.org Mari Sandoz http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/mari-sandoz <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Mari Sandoz</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-article-image--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * 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field--node--field-encyclopedia-image.html.twig * field--node--image.html.twig * field--field-encyclopedia-image.html.twig * field--image.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-encyclopedia-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <a href="/image/mari-sandoz-1938"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/3c17537v%5B1%5D_0.jpg?itok=lJWmtHd_" width="820" height="1024" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-wide" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> </a> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="carousel-caption d-none d-md-block"> <h5><a href="/image/mari-sandoz-1938" rel="bookmark"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--image.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--image.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Mari Sandoz, 1938</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> </a></h5> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--image.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--image.html.twig * field--body.html.twig x field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Mari Sandoz, famed Western author, in 1938.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/content/node--image--article-detail-image.html.twig' --> </div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 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'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'time' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> <time datetime="2016-08-12T15:07:31-06:00" title="Friday, August 12, 2016 - 15:07" class="datetime">Fri, 08/12/2016 - 15:07</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/time.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'addtoany_standard' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * addtoany-standard--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * addtoany-standard--node.html.twig x addtoany-standard.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/mari-sandoz" data-a2a-title="Mari Sandoz"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fcoloradoencyclopedia.org%2Farticle%2Fmari-sandoz&amp;title=Mari%20Sandoz"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"></a><a class="a2a_button_email"></a></span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/addtoany/templates/addtoany-standard.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><p>Mari Sandoz (1896–1966) was a popular author in the early- to mid-twentieth century whose works of both fiction and non-fiction focused on life in the Rocky Mountain West. Sandoz’s work represents some of the most widely read literature concerning the American West and has done much to influence several generations’ understanding of the region as a whole. Today, Sandoz is survived by her literary works and is still widely considered to be one of the American West’s preeminent authors.</p> <h2>Early Life</h2> <p>Born on May 10, 1896, Mari Sandoz was the eldest of Swedish immigrants Jules and Mary Fehr Sandoz’s six children. As the eldest child, Mari was responsible for the toughest ranch work as well as caring for her younger sisters and brother. Despite these duties and constant, grim discouragement from Jules, she learned to read and write by lamplight. As her knowledge expanded, she increasingly yearned for a different life. Jules attempted to suppress these tendencies in his eldest daughter, but it was no use, as she had inherited his fierceness, his independence, and his bravery.</p> <p>For a period of about five years in her late teens, Mari taught in a one-room ranch schoolhouse in order to augment the family finances. At the same time she continued to stay up and study by kerosene lamp after correcting papers, giving herself enough of an education to get into the University of Nebraska. Of course, Jules disapproved. He thought Sandoz ought to get married, work hard on a ranch, have children, and live the life dictated by what he understood as society’s norms. Yet Mari finally slipped away to Lincoln, living a hand-to-mouth existence doing whatever menial work she could find while attending classes at the University of Nebraska. She could not be accepted as a qualified student because she had no high school diploma, but that did not keep her from receiving an education or from writing and sending out manuscripts.</p> <h2>Emergence as Author</h2> <p>Mari Sandoz’s first book, <em>Old Jules</em>, detailed her grueling childhood and early poverty and won <em>Atlantic Magazine’s</em> $5,000 nonfiction prize in 1935. Ostensibly, <em>Old Jules</em> was a portrait of her Swiss father, an immigrant to northwestern Nebraska. Jules Sandoz was a rancher, tough pioneer, fine shot, brave outdoorsman, and a friend to the Indians. But as a husband, he was demanding and autocratic—he went through four wives—and as a father, he was cruel and vicious. Jules retained some measure of charm, however, despite his fierce independence, and he commanded great loyalty and love from his children. <em>Old Jules</em> was not only a biography of Mari’s father but also a picture of the whole family and pioneer life on the region’s primitive ranches at the turn of the century.</p> <p>Mari’s bent had always been towards the history of the Rocky Mountain West or of the Plains Indian tribes, whom she had come to know at the Sandoz ranch. In fact, later in life she was formally inducted into the tribe of the Oglala Lakota. Inevitably, Mari submitted her first manuscripts to local journals and publications, where their appearance helped give her confidence. Gradually, her stories appeared in national magazines, including the <em>Saturday Evening Post</em>. Simultaneously, she obtained the position of associate editor of the <em>Nebraska History Magazine</em>, working with the Nebraska Historical Society.</p> <h2>Denver</h2> <p>When critics deemed <em>Old Jules</em> a “true American epic,” Mari quickly began writing another manuscript, and two years later her first novel, <em>Slogum House</em>, was published. In 1939 her second novel, <em>Capital City</em>, attacked the Fascist movement in the United States, garnering mixed reviews. Nevertheless, <em>Capital City</em> gave her the courage to break work-a-day ties with her home state and move to Denver in 1940. Sandoz sought to concentrate on research for a biography of Crazy Horse, an Oglala who was one of the most famous American Indian chiefs. In writing Crazy Horse’s biography, she also sought an opportunity to break free from all former associations and precepts.</p> <p>During the two-and-one-half years of Sandoz’s residence in Denver, she lived in an apartment house at 1010 Sherman Street named the Thomas Carlyle, which was next door to the Robert Browning and across the street from the Mark Twain, forming an appropriate literary cloak for her own poetic and distinctly American work. Even after she left Colorado, Mari returned nearly every summer to stay between a month and six weeks at the Lazy VV Ranch, four miles north of <strong>Nederland</strong> in the scenic Colorado Rockies.</p> <h2>Later Life</h2> <p>Mari Sandoz was well-known for several personal preoccupations in addition to her successful writing career. She was extremely and publically interested in extrasensory perception (ESP) and was known for her fascination by what she held to be the psychic powers of several friends and members of the Oglala. Mari also denied all religions and remained firm in her belief that “religion was mankind’s necessary emotional crutch,” worthy of no more than a historic or an economic assessment. During World War II she was staunchly pro-Allies and donated widely to the Foundation for American-Soviet Friendship. By 1950 the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities suspected that she might have belonged to the American Communist Party, although such reports were never accurately verified and plagued most authors, actors, and public personalities at the time.</p> <p>In 1950 the University of Nebraska awarded Mari Sandoz an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature. After the Lazy VV Ranch was sold in 1951, Mari’s visits to Denver became shorter and generally focused on researching, signing autographs, or lecturing. In 1954 the governor of Nebraska created an annual Mari Sandoz Day, while the state’s Native Sons and Daughters gave her an Award for Distinguished Achievement. Mari Sandoz died on March 10, 1966 due to complications from bone cancer.</p> <h2>Works by Mari Sandoz</h2> <p><strong>Non-fiction</strong></p> <ul> <li><em><u>Old Jules</u></em>. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935; Lincoln: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nebraska_Press" title="University of Nebraska Press">University of Nebraska Press</a>, 1962.</li> <li><em>Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas.</em> Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1942.</li> <li><em>Cheyenne Autumn.</em> New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953.</li> <li><em>The Buffalo Hunters.</em> New York: Hastings House, 1954.</li> <li><em>The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande across the Far Marias.</em> New York: Hastings House, 1958.</li> <li><em>Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist.</em> New York: Clarkson Potter, 1960.</li> <li><em>These Were the Sioux.</em> New York: Hastings House, 1961.</li> <li><em>Love Song to the Plains.</em> Harper &amp; Row State Series. New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1961; Lincoln.</li> <li><em>The Beaver Men, Spearheads of Empire.</em> New York: Hastings House, 1964.</li> <li><em>The Battle of the Little Bighorn.</em> Lippincott Major Battle Series. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Fiction</strong></p> <ul> <li><em>Slogum House.</em> Boston: Little, Brown, 1937.</li> <li><em>Capital City.</em> Boston: Little, Brown, 1939.</li> <li><em>The Tom-Walker.</em> New York: Dial Press, 1947.</li> <li><em>Winter Thunder.</em> Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1954.</li> <li><em>Miss Morissa: Doctor of the Gold Trail.</em> New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.</li> <li><em>The Horsecatcher.</em> Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957.</li> <li><em>The Story Catcher.</em> Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Essays</strong></p> <ul> <li>“The Kinkaider Comes and Goes: Memories of an Adventurous Childhood in the Sandhills of Nebraska.” <em>North American Review</em> 229 (April, May 1930):431–42, 576–83.</li> <li>“The New Frontier Woman.” <em>Country Gentleman</em>, September 1936, p.&nbsp;49.</li> <li>“There Were Two Sitting Bulls.” <em>Blue Book</em>, November 1949, pp.&nbsp;58–64.</li> <li>“The Look of the West—1854.” <em>Nebraska History</em> 35 (December 1954):243–54.</li> <li>“Nebraska.” <em>Holiday</em>, May 1956, pp.&nbsp;103–14.</li> <li>“Outpost in New York.” <em>Prairie Schooner</em> 37 (Summer 1963):95–106.</li> <li>“Introduction to George Bird Grinnell,” <em>The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life</em>. New York: Cooper Square, 1962.</li> <li>“Introduction to Amos Bad Heart Bull and Helen Blish,” <em>A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux.</em> Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Short Writing Collections</strong></p> <ul> <li><em>Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz.</em> Edited by Virginia Faulkner. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1959 and 1976.</li> <li><em>Sandhill Sundays and Other Recollections.</em> Edited by Virginia Faulkner. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Adapted from Caroline Bancroft, "Two Women Writers: Caroline Bancroft Recalls Her Days with Mari Sandoz," <em>Colorado Heritage Magazine</em> 2, no. 1 (1982).</strong></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-keyword--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-keyword.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-keyword.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-keyword field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-keyword"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-keyword">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/mari-sandoz" hreflang="en">Mari Sandoz</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/mari" hreflang="en">Mari</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/sandoz" hreflang="en">Sandoz</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/old-jules" hreflang="en">Old Jules</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/love-song-plains" hreflang="en">Love Song for the Plains</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/author" hreflang="en">Author</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/women" hreflang="en">Women</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-references-html--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-references-html.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-references-html.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-references-html field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-references-html"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-references-html">References</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-references-html"><p>LaVerne Harrell Clark, “A Dedication to the Memory of Mari Sandoz 1896-1966,” <em>Arizona and the West</em> 18, no. 4 (1976).</p> <p>Helen Winter Stauffer, <em>Mari Sandoz: Story Catcher of the Plains</em> (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982).</p> <p>John R. Wunder, “Some Notes on Mari Sandoz,” <em>Prairie Schooner</em> 80, no. 4 (2006).</p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-additional-information-htm--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-information-htm field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-additional-information-htm">Additional Information</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"><p><a href="http://www.sandozcenter.com/clubs/biography.csc">Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center</a></p> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> Fri, 12 Aug 2016 21:07:31 +0000 yongli 1657 at http://coloradoencyclopedia.org