The Great Council (inscribed to Wallace Stegner)
Rushville, NE: Caroline Sandoz Pifer/Mari Sanoz Corp. 1970. First edition. Softcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page by the editor: "To Dr. Wallace Stegner, in deep appreciation from Caroline Sandoz Pifer." Pifer was the younger sister of Mari Sandoz and arranged for the posthumous publication of this piece of historical fiction (which at times reads as essay) about the Plains tribes council in 1875, the year before the Battle of Custer, during which the U.S. tried to purchase the Black Hills from the tribes. Stiff textured brown wraps, staple bound, 28 pages, with a brief introduction by Pifer and Mari Sandoz's sources at rear. A fine copy and a nice association between Western writers. Fine. Item #1252
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