WRITER

Dee Brown

1908 - 2002

Dee Brown

Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown (February 29, 1908 – December 12, 2002) was an American novelist, historian, and librarian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dee Brown has received more than 49,738 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Dee Brown is the 5,696th most popular writer (down from 4,824th in 2019), the 8,723rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,073rd in 2019) and the 675th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

The gentle tamers

Social life and customs, Frontières, Femmes

1958

Killdeer Mountain

Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Dakota Indians

Sam Morrison, reports for the "Saint Louis Herald," is in Dakota country looking for stories. He decides to join a group of passengers on a steamboat going up the Missouri River for the dedication of a new fort named in honor of one Charles Rawley. On the way he talks to a number of different people about Rawley, including a mysterious stranger who might even be Rawley himself, though Sam has been given at least two eyewitness accounts of Rawley's death. The stranger, who calls himself Alex Selkirk (the true name of Robinson Crusoe, though this is never mentioned), might however, be a former Rebel named Drew Hardesty - also reportedly dead. Is Rawley a hero or fraud? Is he alive or dead? Morrison is determined to find out.

1983

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Indians of North America, History, Wars

An American Indian History, a 1970 book by American writer Dee Brown that covers the history of Native Americans primarily in the American West in the late nineteenth century. Although the title refers to a particular event location, many tribes from across the northern continent are included.

1970

Creek Mary's blood

Fiction, Fiction in English, Indians of North America

In Creek Mary’s Blood, Dee Brown fictionalizes the astonishing true story of Mary Musgrove—born in 1700 to a Creek tribal chief—and five generations of her family. By tracing her struggles with colonists in Georgia, and then the lives of her two sons (one born to a white trader and the other to a Cherokee warrior), Brown’s novel creates a gripping panorama of the American Indian experience in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His narrative spans colonial rebellion, the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War—in which Mary’s descendants fought on both sides of the conflict.

1911

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level

British and irish drama, Classical Literature, Conflict of generations

2002

Hear that lonesome whistle blow

History, Railroads, Juvenile literature

Includes information on Arapaho Indians, the Central Pacific Railroad of California, Cheyenne Indians, the Northern Pacific Railroad, Pawnee Indians, Plains Indians, immigrants, settlers, Sioux Indians, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Union Pacific Railraod, Abraham Lincoln, etc.

1977