This is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.
Renée M. Laegreid is a professor of history at the University of Wyoming.¿She is the author of Riding Pretty: Rodeo Queens in the American West (Nebraska, 2006) and the coauthor, with Sandra K. Mathews, of Women’s Experiences on the North American Plains. Shannon D. Smith is the executive director for the Wyoming Humanities Council and an author focusing on women in the West. She is the author of Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight (Nebraska, 2008). Smith¿taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for seven years.¿John Wunder is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Echo of Its Time: The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867–1933 (Nebraska, 2018).
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