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...1900s who had "seen the settler-cattlemen fights" and been wounded twice herself. In later years, she was forever "tearing around on horseback and climbing the Pecos," digging behind legends of Indian wars, gamblers and lawmen for the tales she wove into a score of chronicles (Old Jules, Slogum House) whose gritty realism never dulled her own feeling for the Plains, to which she returned every spring, "when I see a mare's-tail sky and I get so homesick for Nebraska it hurts...
Gamblers & Colonizers. In half a dozen books (Old Jules, Slogum House} about settlers, cowmen and sheepherders of the 1870s, Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down...
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...
...when books are banned it is usually by action of municipal authorities, as Boston's mayor once stopped the sale of Dreiser's American Tragedy, or as the mayor of Omaha, Neb. more recently clamped down on Mari Sandoz' Slogum House. In England books that come under official displeasure are usually withdrawn by the publishers; in European dictatorships their circulation is forbidden by the state. Recent book bans...
...bookstores reporting it as a leading seller; if three bookstores list a title, it appears on the Herald Tribune list. Thus, last fortnight, A. J. Cronin's The Citadel was listed by 65 bookstores, had first place on the list, while Mari Sandoz' novel of pioneer Nebraska, Slogum House, shared last place with three others. The Publishers' Weekly list is based on monthly questionnaires to 200 bookstores, is tabulated by regions and cities...