Sandoz << SAHN dohz >>, Mari Susette (1896-1966), was an American biographer and novelist. Her first book, Old Jules (1935), told of her father’s hard farm life. She also wrote Crazy Horse (1942), a biography of the Sioux leader; Cheyenne Autumn (1953), which recounts a tragic period of Native American history; Buffalo Hunters (1954), which records the slaughter of the bison; and Love Song to the Plains (1961), which describes life on the Plains.
Sandoz was born on May 11, 1896, in Sheridan County, Nebraska. She died on March 10, 1966.
