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A Short Biography of Dee Brown

Author Name:

Dee Brown

Born As:

Dorris Alexander Brown

Other Names:

Born:

28 Feb 1908

Died:

12 Dec 2002




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Librarian, historian and novelist                          
Selected Works:
Selected Works:

Histories:

Fighting Indians of the West - 1948
Grierson's Raid - 1954 - about a Union foray into Confederate territory
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West - 1958
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - 1970
The Fetterman Massacre - 1974
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow - 1977 - about the Union Pacific Railroad
The Galvanized Yankees - 1986
Wondrous Times on the Frontier - 1991
The American West - 1994
Great Documents in American Indian History - 1995

Novels:

Wave High The Banner - 1942
Morgan's Raiders - 1959
Showdown at Little Big Horn - 1964
Creek Mary’s Blood - 1980
Killdeer Mountain - 1983
Conspiracy of Knaves - 1986 - Civil War historical saga and spy thriller
Way To Bright Star - 1998

Other:

American Spa: Hot Springs, Arkansas - 1982 - an illustrated history
Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American: Retold for Our Times - 1993
Images of the Old West - 1996
When the Century Was Young - 1993 - memories of growing up in 1920s & 1930s.                          
Mother Lulu Cranford
Father Daniel Alexander Brown
Wife Sally Stroud
                          
                          
His remains are interred in Urbana, Illinois. The Central Arkansas Library System named a branch library in Little Rock for him.