Stan Paregien, Editor
Leonard Sanders
Leonard Sanders was born in Denver, Colo. on Jan. 15, 1929. A former student at the University of Oklahoma, Sanders is another member of the WWA club of "recovering newspersons". He worked with newspapers in Wichita Falls, Tex., Enid, Okla., Oklahoma City, and as fine arts editor with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Leonard Sanders is the author of Four-Year Hitch (1961), The Wooden Horseshoe (1964), The Seed (a science fiction book written under the name of Dan Thomas, 1968), Sonoma, The Hamlet Warning (1976), The Hamlet Ultimatum (1979), How Fort Worth Became the Texasmost City, 1849-1920 (with Ron Tyler, Texas Christian University Press), Fort Worth (Dell, 1984), and Light on the Mountain (Bantam Books, 1987).
Mari Sandoz
(Deceased)
Mari Sandoz was born in Sheridan County, Neb. on May 11, 1896 to Jules and Mary Sandoz. She died in 1966.She was reared in the Sand Hills of northwest Nebraska and experienced primitive pioneer conditions firsthand. She even lost the sight in one eye after a blizzard left her snowblind for a time. She married a rancher named Wray Macumber in 1914, but they divorced in 1919. She studied at the University of Nebraska.
Mari Sandoz taught school for five years, worked as a technician in a pharmaceutical lab, and did research on the Sioux Indians for the Nebraska State Historical Society. She was associate editor of The School Executive magazine from 1927 to 1929, proofreader for the Star and Nebraska State Journal from 1929 to 1934, director of research for the Nebraska State Historical Society and associate editor of Nebraska History journal from 1934 to 1935.
The year 1935 signaled a new direction in her life, as she became a writer and lecturer. She lived in Lincoln, Neb. from 1935 to 1940, in Denver, Colo. from 1940 to 1943, and in New York City from 1943 until her death in 1966. Her first book, Old Jules (Atlantic, 1935; Book of the Month Club selection; revised ed., Hastings House, 1975; new hardback and paperback versions by Bison Books, 1985), is the biography of her father, Jules Sandoz. It was rejected by 14 publishers before it won the Atlantic Monthly nonfiction prize of $5,000 and was published by Atlantic Press. That book won her fame, as well as a small fortune for that day and time, and allowed her in 1935 to move into a full-time career as a writer.
Mari Sandoz also wrote Slogum House (1937, 1981), Capital City (1939, 1982), Crazy Horse: the Strange Man of the Ogallalas (1942; 1975), The Tom-Walker (1947). Her book Cheyenne Autumn (1953; 1975) was made into a 1964 Warner Brothers film starring James Stewart. She also wrote Winter Thunder (1954), The Buffalo Hunters (1954, 1978), Miss Morissa: Doctor of the Gold Trail (1955; 1975), The Horsecatcher (1957, 1986), The Cattlemen (1958, 1978), Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz (1959), Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist (1960, 1976), These Were the Sioux (1961), Love Song to the Plains (1961, 1966), The Beaver Men (1964), "Old Jules" Country: A Selection from "Old Jules" and 30 Years of Writing Since the Book Was Published (1965), Christmas of the Phonograph Records (1966), The Battle of the Little Bighorn (1966, 1978), The Story Catcher (1973).
Her numerous awards included the highest award that the WWA offers, the Saddleman Award, presented to her in 1964. The National Cowboy Hall of Fame presented her with a Wrangler Award in 1962 for her article in the American Heritage magazine. And the WWA awarded her with a Spur in 1963 for her juvenile novel, The Story Catcher. See the article, "To the Memory of Mari Sandoz," by Harry W. Paige in The Roundup (July-Aug., 1985, 16).
Kendra Santos
Kendra Santos was a roper with the California Polytechnical University (San Luis Obispo) rodeo team. She received a B.S. and her M.B.A. in journalism. She and her family live on a racehorse farm. Kendra writes for American Cowboy and other magazines.
Les Savage, Jr.
(Deceased)
Les Savage, Jr. began writing at the age of 17. He was a steady contributor to the pulp magazines for many years. His twenty-some books included Treasure of the Brasada, Return to Warbow, Silver Street Women, and The Royal City. Some were made into motion pictures.
Les Savage, Jr., 35, died at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California on May 26, 1958.
Paul Savage
Paul Savage was born in Warren, Ohio. Early in life he built roads in Alaska, then spent a couple of years in the Marines, where he collected a Purple Heart. And then in about 1946 he found work in Hollywood, Calif.
Paul Savage writes for TV and feature films. Back in the 1960's he was a writer for the "Gunsmoke" series. He also writes under the name of William Putman. (His photo and bio appeared in the June, 1969 issue of The Roundup.)
Dr. William W. Savage, Jr.
A history professor at Oklahoma University, William W. Savage, Jr., is the author of The Cowboy Hero (1986), Singing Cowboys And All That Jazz (1983) and The Cherokee Strip Livestock Association (University of Missouri Press).
William W. Savage, Jr., is also the editor of The Frontier: Comparative Studies, Vol.II (with Stephen I. Thompson, 1979), Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth (1980), and Indian Life: Transforming an American Myth (1978).
Joe Sawyer
Joe Sawyer, cowboy movie actor, usually played one of the "bad guys" in his roles in the early Western movies.
Joe Sawyer's Western roles included "The Westerner" (1934), "The Revenge Rider," (1935), "The Arizonia" (1935), "Frontier Marshall" (1939), "Santa Fe Trail" (1940), "Lucky Cisco Kid" (1940), "Melody Ranch" (1940), "Belle Star" (1941), "Cowboy in Manhatten" (1943), "The Singing Sheriff" (1944), "Stagecoach Kid" (1949), "North to Alaska" (1960), and "How the West Was Won" (1962).
Joe Sawyer was a versatile actor who also played in comedy roles. He appeared in an amazing 179 films during his long career as a character actor.
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John Saxon
John Saxon, actor, was born Carmen Orrico on Aug. 5, 1935 in Brooklyn, NY.
He was a model who transferred his talents to films during the 1950s. During his early movie career, he often played the sulking, hurting young stud in low-budget forgettable films.
He appeared in more than 60 TV shows, including guest appearances in Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, and Cimarron Strip.
John Saxon appeared in over 125 films, including such Westerns as The Unforgiven (1960), The Plunderers (1960), Posse From Hell (1961), The Appaloosa (1966), Winchester 73 (1967, TV), Death of a Gunfighter (1969), Joe Kidd (1972) and The Electric Horseman (1979).
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--- Bible: Galations 6:6-8
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