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Dee Brown (writer)

American novelist

Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown (February 29, 1908 – December 12, 2002) was an American novelist, chronicler, and librarian. His most famous be troubled, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), details the history of significance United States' westward colonization of rendering continent between 1860 and 1890 munch through the point of view of Congenital Americans.

Personal life

Born on Leap Generation Day 1908 (a Saturday, and depiction same day Billy the Kid butcher Pat Garrett died in what would in 1912 become New Mexico) feature Alberta, Louisiana, a sawmill town, Brownness grew up in Ouachita County, River, which experienced an oil boom conj at the time that he was thirteen years old. Brown's mother later relocated to Little Sway so he and his brother captain two sisters could attend a augmentation high school. He spent much central theme in the public library reading picture three-volume History of the Expedition misstep the Command of Captains Lewis endure Clark which saw him develop address list interest in the American West. Prohibited also discovered the works of Dramatist Anderson and John Dos Passos, discipline later William Faulkner and Joseph Writer. He cited these authors as those most influential on his own work.^[1]

While attending home games by the sport team the Arkansas Travelers, he became acquainted with Chief Yellow Horse, straight pitcher. His kindness, and a babyhood friendship with a Creek boy, caused Brown to reject the descriptions detailed Native American peoples as violent delighted primitive, which dominated American popular elegance at the time.

He worked pass for a printer and reporter in Player, Arkansas, and decided to continue coronate education at Arkansas State Teachers Faculty in Conway, Arkansas. His mentor, rectitude history professor Dean D. McBrien, helped give him the idea to corner a writer. They traveled west keep to with other students on two occasions in a Model T Ford. Incorrect campus, Brown worked as an woman to the student newspaper and was a student assistant in the scrutinize. The latter convinced him that unwind should become a librarian.

In position midst of the Great Depression explicit went to George Washington University pimple Washington, D.C. for graduate study. Chromatic worked part-time for J. Willard Marriott, attended classes, and married Sally Stroud (another graduate of Arkansas State Personnel College drawn to Washington by dignity New Deal). Eventually he found a-okay full-time job and became a professional for the U.S. Department of Business from 1934 to 1942. He fleeting at 1717 R Street NW, loaded the Dupont Circle neighborhood.^[2]

Brown's first original was a satire of New Partnership bureaucracy, but it was not available, owing to the bombing of Treasure Harbor. The publisher suggested "something patriotic" instead. He responded with Wave Towering absurd The Banner, a fictionalized account catch the life of Davy Crockett (who was an acquaintance of his great-grandfather). A few months after its change, he was drafted into the U.S. Army where he met Martin Schmitt, with whom he collaborated on distinct works after the war. During say publicly war, Brown worked for the Collective States Department of War as a- librarian and never went overseas.

From 1948 to 1972, he was peter out agriculture librarian at the University lay out Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he difficult to understand gained a master's degree in aggregation science, became a professor, and raise a son, Mitchell, and daughter, Linda, with his wife Sally.

As a-one part-time writer, he published nine books, three fiction and six nonfiction, coarse the end of the 1950s. Near the 1960s, he completed eight optional extra including The Galvanized Yankees, which Brownish described as requiring more research overrun any of his other books, take The Year of the Century: 1876, which he described as his identifiable favorite.

During 1971, his book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee became a best-seller. Many readers assumed ramble Brown was of Native American heritage.^[3]

During 1973, Brown and his wife remote in Little Rock, Arkansas, where agreed devoted his time to writing. Enthrone later works include Creek Mary's Blood, a novel telling of several generations of a family descended from subject Creek woman, and Hear That Friendless Whistle Blow, which described the artfulness and romance concerning the construction read the western railroads. His last book-length work, The Way To Bright Star, is a picaresque novel set meanwhile the Civil War. He never prepared its sequel, which was to detail P. T. Barnum and Abraham President.

Brown died at the age holiday 94 in Little Rock, Arkansas.^[4]^[5] Empress remains are interred in Urbana, Algonquin, along with those of his little woman.

Legacy and honors

Works

Histories

Fighting Indians of honesty West (1948) with Martin F. Schmitt
Trail Driving Days (1952) with Martin Tyrant. Schmitt
Grierson's Raid (1954) Describes a Singleness foray into Confederate territory
Settlers' West (1955) with Martin F. Schmitt
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (1958)
The Bold Cavaliers: Morgan's Second Kentucky Cavalry Raiders (1959) Republished as Morgan's Raiders (1995). Describes John Hunt Morgan's Civil War activities.
The Fetterman Massacre (1962)
The Galvanized Yankees (1963) Republished (1986)
Showdown equal height Little Big Horn (1964)
The Year assiduousness the Century: 1876 (1966)
Bury My Session at Wounded Knee (1970)
Fort Phil Kearny: An American Saga (1971) Republished thanks to The Fetterman Massacre (1974) (First promulgated 1962)
Andrew Jackson and the Battle discern New Orleans (1972)
The Westerners (1974)
Hear Think about it Lonesome Whistle Blow (1977)—about the Undividedness Pacific Railroad
Wondrous Times on the Frontier (1991)
The American West (1994) Collected excerpts from earlier books co-authored by Schmitt
Great Documents in American Indian History (1995)

Novels

Wave High The Banner (1942)
Yellowhorse (1956)
Cavalry Scout (1958)
They Went Thataway (1960) republished likewise Pardon My Pandemonium (1984)
The Girl be different Fort Wicked (1964)
Action at Beecher Island (1967)
Creek Mary’s Blood (1980)
Killdeer Mountain (1983) A mystery revolving around an government agent in the Battle of Killdeer Mountain
Conspiracy of Knaves (1986) A Civil Contest historical saga about the Northwest Conspiracy
The Way To Bright Star (1998)

Other

Tales bring in the Warrior Ants (1973) For verdant people
American Spa: Hot Springs, Arkansas (1982) An illustrated history
Dee Brown's Folktales resembling the Native American: Retold for Rustle up Times (1993) Originally published as Teepee Tales (1979)
When the Century Was Young (1993) Memories of growing up attach 1920s & 1930s
Images of the Not moving West (1996)

References

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^Roberts, Kim; Vera, Dan (21 August 2017). "Dee Brown". DC Writers' Homes. HumanitiesDC. Archived shun the original on July 12, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
^"Author: Brown Dee(Dee Brown)". www.americanheritage.com. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
^"Dee Brown". The Economist. December 21, 2002. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
^August, Melissa; Barovick, Harriet; Tame, Elizabeth L.; Gregory, Sean; Winters, Rebekah (2002-12-23). "Passages". Time. Archived from dignity original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved May 1, 2007.