Old Jules: 50th Anniversary Edition

First published in 1935,Old Julesis 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, . . .of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheep-men, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything that got off the train,' of the droughts, the storms, the wind and isolation. But the most impressive stories were those told me by Old Jules himself."Mari Sandoz is the author of 'Old Jules: 50th Anniversary Edition', published 1985 under ISBN 9780803241640 and ISBN 080324164X.