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.
Books
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
1977
The Gentle Tamers
Women of the Old Wild West
1958
Wondrous Times on the Frontier
1991
Morgan's Raiders
1993
Grierson's Raid
1996
Killdeer Mountain
1983
Action at Beecher Island
1967
The Girl from Fort Wicked
A Novel
1988
Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American
Retold for Our Times
1979
The Way to Bright Star
1998
Cavalry Scout
A Novel
1958
Trail Driving Days
1885
When the Century Was Young
1993
The Settlers' West
1955
Conspiracy of Knaves
1987
The Native American Experience
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood
2017
The Year of the Century, 1876
1966
Showdown at Little Big Horn
1964
The American West
1994
The Galvanized Yankees
1963
The Fetterman Massacre
1962
The Bold Cavaliers
Morgan's Second Kentucky Cavalry Raiders
2012
Creek Mary's Blood
1980
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West
1970
Dee Brown on the Civil War
Grierson's Raid, The Bold Cavaliers, and The Galvanized Yankees
2017
Saga of the Sioux
An Adaptation from Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2011
