These Were the Sioux

New York: Hastings House, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x0. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed and signed with a doodle by author on front endpaper ('To Grant R. Denniston, a great good friend of my friend E.G.G., Sincerely, Mari Sandoz'). Small spot on corner of first few pages, light stain along two edges of rear jacket panel, shallow score mark across jacket spine. 1961 Hard Cover. 118 pp. "The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade, takes the reader far inside a world of rituals surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle.