American Procession Series

   This is another short post about a Book Series. It will be of minor interest to a small number of bibliophiles and it will be of no interest at all to the miniscule group of readers who stumble across this blog.

   The American Procession Series was published for about a decade in the middle of the last century, which makes it even less exciting. Still, I like checking such series against the holdings in the library, where I used to work. It used to be a fine library, but it has largely moved on from the 'book business.'  The library has some of the titles, which are now in storage. Odds are, that they will soon disappear.  Along the way, I did learn a bit about Mari Sandoz, the Nebraskan who was likely not generally as happy as she is in the picture which I have provided below.

Published by Hastings House ‒1954-1964
Henry G. Alsberg, Editor

   This series focussed on "periods in our history and cultural growth which have not yet been fully explored." Of the nine titles in the series, the Western Libraries has six.  Three of the books are authored by Mari Sandoz and the Western Libraries has others by her which are listed at the bottom (the bolded titles.) They will be of use to those interested in Indigenous matters. For a thorough analysis of this series or the books by Sandoz, check with a Western Librarian.

The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire, Mari Sandoz.

Brass-Knuckle Crusade: The Great Know-Nothing Conspiracy, Carlton Beals.

The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, Mari Sandoz. 

The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias, Mari Sandoz. 

Escape to Utopia: The Communal Movement in America, Everett, Webber.

New Green World: John Bartram and the Early Naturalists, Josephine Herbst.

Tinkers and Genius: The Story of the Yankee Inventors, Edmund Fuller. 

The Wild Jackasses: The American Farmer in Revolt, Dale Kramer. 

Wilderness For Sale: The Story of the First Western Land Rush, Walter Havighurst

                                       Other Works by Mari Sandoz

The Battle of Little Big Horn

Cheyenne Autumn (The source for John Ford's last Western.)

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas: A Biography

I Do Not Apologize For the Length of This Letter: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 194-1965.

Description: "The collected correspondence of Mari Sandoz focusing on her political activism in behalf of American Indians in the mid-twentieth century. Introduced and edited by Kimberli Lee, the letters document Sandoz's role as a non-Native chronicler and advocate for Plains Indian cultures"--Provided by publisher.

Old Jules

A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux

                                                        Mari Sandoz

For more information about Sandoz see:

The Mari Sandoz Heritage Society

and the:

Mari Sandoz High Plains Center 

Source: 

   For more about this series and others see: Series Americana: Post Depression-Era Regional Literature, 1938-1980: A Descriptive Bibliography: Including Biographies of the Authors, Illustrators, and Editors, by Carol Fitzgerald