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Sandoz Elementary School is named after Mari Sandoz (May 11, 1896-March 10, 1966). Mari Sandoz was an American biographer and novelist. She was born in Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, near Gordon, Nebraska in the sandhills of Sheridan County. Having only went to a rural school for four and a half years, she took the rural teachers' examination, taught five years in western Nebraska, and attended the University of Nebraska three and one half years. Mari Sandoz was first famed for Old Jules (1935), the story of her father and other settlers who came to the upper Niobrara region in northwestern Nebraska in the late nineteenth century. Her greatest achievement is the series of the six related books on life as it developed with the Indian and the white man, The Beaver Man, Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn, The Buffalo Hunters, The Cattlemen, and Old Jules. In these and a dozen other volumes, she presented the drama of man on the Great Plains more completely, accurately, and vividly than anyone before her had done. Last update: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at 12:32:03 PM This site is using the Blue Comet 1.1 theme.
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