Old Jules Country: A Selection from Old Jules and Thirty Years of Writing Since the Book Was Published

By zealous research, keen observation, and wide-ranging and deeply probing commentary, Mari Sandoz has become one of the most famous and well-respected interpreters of the American West. *Old Jules Country* is made up of the region that Sandoz has written about most frequently-the High Plains of the Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming-the Black Hills, the Bad Lands, the sandhills, and the great rivers: the Missouri, the Platte, and the Yellowstone. Here are selections from the six volumes of her acclaimed Great Plains Series *The Beaver Men*, *Crazy Horse*, *Cheyenne Autumn*, *The Buffalo Hunters*, *The Cattlemen*, and *Old Jules* and from her study of a great people, *These Were the Sioux*. Also included are two essays, "The Lost Sitting Bull" and "The Homestead in Perspective." A Cheyenne prayer and two sketches unavailable elsewhere-"Snakes" and "Coyotes and Eagles"-complete the collection. This anthology provides a stimulating sampling for readers not yet acquainted with Sandoz's work. For her extensive following, it offers the opportunity for a satisfying reappraisal of her overall achievement.