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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas

Early Edition

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Description

Octavo, 428pp. Tan boards, color illustration on cover, spine, toning to covers. Top edge pink. Price of $3.50 on front flap, dust jacket, tape repair along spine, toniing to spine. Uncut pages. Fold out map of “Crazy Horse Country” in near fine condition. Signed by the author on front end paper, dated June 8, 1944, with large illustration below inscription.
Comments: Novelist Mari Susette Sandoz was one of the 20th centuries foremost writers on Western pioneer life and the Plains Indians. Originally from Nebraska, she moved to Denver and then New York City after controversial writings about the people of her home state. She is best known for her biography of Crazy Horse, written from the viewpoint of the Lakota Indians, a novel concept at the time.

Additional information

Location Published

New York

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Edition

Early Edition

Date Published

1942

Binding

Cloth

Condition

Very good

Jacket Condition

fair

Author

Sandoz, Mari (Signed)