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Old Jules
Old Jules
Author: Mari Sandoz
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 cattl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780803241640
ISBN-10: 080324164X
Publication Date: 8/1/1985
Pages: 438
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This is a very good book for people who are interested in the settling of the sandhills area of Nebraska
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I am interested in frontier stories from every point of view and this is a fascinating one. Nebraska in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
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One of my favorite books. Gives a very realistic history of how how tough frontier life was and the people that settled in western Nebraska. Highly recommend this book to anyone.
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