Best of Dee Brown's WestAn Anthology
Dee Brown - Edited By Stan Banash
For over 50 years Dee Brown has been writing the true history of the American West-offering panoramas and intimate portraits of a region, a culture, a way of life that in many ways was more remarkable than the stereotypes and naive fantasies that his writings have helped to debunk. He has not only altered and expanded our view of the western experience as a whole. His enormously successful book, Bury My Heart
at Wounded Knee, forever changed our view of the Indian and made us look seriously at the consequences of American continental expansion. A prolific writer and prodigious researcher, Brown has some 30 books and dozens of historical articles to his credit and is acknowledged as the foremost popular historian of the American West.
This collection of 24 short pieces covers the West over a hundred-year period. Drawing on historical archives as well as letters, diaries and other first-hand sources, Brown writes of western icons such as Lewis and Clark and Geronimo and also features men and women whose stories have been neglected over the years. He tells of the adventures of the boys and young men who rode for the Pony Express, of longhorn ranchers and cowboys, and women who were brought to the West to marry miners and ranchers. He offers accounts of the Trail of Tears, the Santa Fe Trail, western settlement, Indian life on the Plains, war and peace between whites and Indians, and an assortment of intrigues, crimes, and scandals. Containing what is arguably some of Brown's best work, this stimulating collection will captivate any reader with an interest in this perennially fascinating chapter of our history.