Bison Books Old jules (third edition), paperback/mari sandoz

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First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece.

This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of -the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed.

So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts, - Sandoz recalls.

-Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything that got off the train, ' of the droughts, the storms, the wind and isolation.

But the most impressive stories were those told me by Old Jules himself.

- This Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by Linda M.

Hasselstrom.