Word: sandoz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WALKER (372 pp.)-Man Sandoz-Dial...
This novel by Nebraska's Mari Sandoz trails Milt the Tom-Walker and his descendants for 80-odd years into the future. It is practically three books in one: like Miss Sandoz' Old Jules, a character study; like her Slogum House, a family chronicle; like her Capital City, a crankily "liberal" political tract. Small shakes as a novel, it is long on period history, melodrama, local color and wondrously rowdy soldier, sod-hut and ranch-house talk...
These, and 53 other folksy, jokesy short stories, essays, articles and poems by authors of the Midwest and Southwest (Jesse Stuart, Eudora Wel.ty, Frank Luther Mott, Mari Sandoz, Albert Halper, August Derleth, et al.), make up Prairie Schooner Caravan, an anthology culled from the University of Nebraska's 17-year-old quarterly, Prairie Schooner ("talent scout of the midlands...
...MARI SANDOZ...