Old Jules

Mari Sandoz

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780803293243
• eBook ISBN: 9780803293649
• Edition: 3
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies
• Index: History

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 cattlemen and the sheepmen, 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.”

This Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by Linda M. Hasselstrom. 

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• INTRODUCTION
• Acknowledgement
• FOREWORD
• Table of Contents
• THE PEOPLE
• I SPRING
• II MIRAGE
• III JEST AND DEPARTURE
• IV THE RETURN
• V A CHECKERED SUIT
• VI HENRIETTE
• VII THE NIOBRARA FEUD
• VIII RAIN MAKERS AND A HUNT TO THE BIG HORNS
• IX EMELIA, CATTLEMENT, AND MURDER
• X MARY, AND A LAND-STEAL PLOT
• XI RAIN
• XII HAIL ON THE PANHANDLE
• XIII A POLISH WEDDING
• XIV THE KINKAIDER COMES
• XV LAND FRAUDS
• XVI THE KILLER
• XVII SNAKEBITE
• XVIII THE HILLS
• XIX THE KINKAIDER GOES
• XX A NEW BOOM
• XXI WINTER
• AFTERWORD
• Back Cover