The American West
By Dee Brown
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Dee Brown
Dorris Alexander “Dee” Brown (1908–2002) was a celebrated author of both fiction and nonfiction, whose classic study Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is widely credited with exposing the systematic destruction of American Indian tribes to a world audience. Brown was born in Louisiana and grew up in Arkansas. He worked as a reporter and a printer before enrolling at Arkansas State Teachers College, where he met his future wife, Sally Stroud. He later earned two degrees in library science, and worked as a librarian while beginning his career as a writer. He went on to research and write more than thirty books, often centered on frontier history or overlooked moments of the Civil War. Brown continued writing until his death in 2002.
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Reviews for The American West
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While this 410 page book has a pub date of 1994, most of the material comes from three earlier books written in the 50's by the same authors, Dee Brown and Martin Schmitt. These are "Fighting Indians of the West", "Trail Driving Days", and "The Settler's West". The book includes over 50 very interesting photos and about 20 helpful and well illustrated maps. For the most part, the material was interesting, but there were passages when it seemed to slip into the 50's textbook approach of too many names and dates, and not enough big picture. I expected the book to be a lot more interesting and while most of the anecdotes were new to me, they did not seem to be the kind of stories I would entertain friends with over a beer. Overall, not quite up to my expectations and a bit disappointing given Brown's big rep for "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee".
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dee Brown is an exceptional story teller and makes the American West come alive.