Dee Brown – författare

Den illustrerade utgåvan av Dee Browns klassiker, med 300 fantastiska bilder i färg, nu i mjukbandsutgåva! Dee Browns Begrav mitt hjärta vid Wounded Knee skildrar USA:s kolonisation av vilda västern under andra halvan av 1800-talet, då apacher, cheyenner, comancher, siouxer och andra stammar bjuder de vita inkräktarna ett oväntat hårt motstånd. I Arizona gäckar hövdingar som Cochise och Geronimo fienden i ett kvartssekel med sin gerillakrigföring. Längs vägen till guldfyndigheterna i Montana tvingar Red Cloud "blårockarna" att lämna sina fort och dra sig tillbaka. Vid Little Bighorn nedgör Crazy Horse och Sitting Bull general Custers sjunde kavalleriregemente till sista man. Till slut tvingas emellertid indianerna att ge sig för övermakten. Men det rättvisepatos och den motståndsvilja som de visar prov på i denna sin sista strid - och som Dee Brown skildrar så livfullt och gripande i sin bok - har gjort deras namn och kultur beundrade av eftervärlden. Författaren kallar dem "de kanske mest heroiska amerikaner som någonsin levat". Begrav mitt hjärta vid Wounded Knee utsågs 1995, av New York Public Library, till en av 1900-talets mest betydelsefulla böcker . OM BOKEN "Jag vet inte när jag senast läste en bok med så bultande hjärta." Göran Greider i DN "En kulturgärning - känns fortfarande brinnande aktuell." Joacim Blomqvist i Borås Tidning "En fantastisk bok." Johan Erlandsson i Kommunalarbetaren "Man måste läsa Dee Browns bok." Lars Åberg i Göteborgs-Posten "... en ruggig skildring av hur landet byggdes med trakasserier och mord: indian för indian, stam för stam, kultur för kultur - en tragedi skriven på en lättflytande prosa." Peter Andersson i Helsingborgs Dagblad "Det gör så ont att läsa Dee Browns Begrav mitt hjärta vid Wounded Knee att jag bara vill lägga mig ner och dö." Lars Mikael Raattamaa i Aftonbladet "Originell, enastående ... får hjärtat att brista, omöjlig att lägga ifrån sig." New York Times "Ett första klassens vittnesmål - storartat, lysande." New Yorker "Förkrossande, fruktansvärd, fängslande ... när man läser denna intensiva och hjärtslitande bok undrar man vilka som egentligen var vildarna." Washington Post "Ett fascinerande, smärtsamt dokument med magnifika porträtt av indianer." Wall Street Journal OM DEN ILLUSTRERADE UTGÅVAN "Återutgivningen på svenska av Dee Browns klassiska bok om krossandet av indiansamhällenas strukturer och idévärld, Begrav mitt hjärta vid Wounded Knee, är mycket välkommen. Den här gången handlar det om en illustrerad utgåva och därigenom ökar innehållets redan ansenliga tyngd ytterligare. Det är som att läsa en helt ny bok. Den djupa tragiken förstärks av stoltheten i de historiska porträtten och den sobra formen ramar in en alternativ syn på existensen som kolonisationen inte tog någon särskild notis om. Dee Brown beskriver en civilisations fysiska, sociala, kulturella och mentala undergång. Det som slogs sönder av våld, buffeljakt och själslig omprogrammering har endast i ytterst begränsad omfattning kunnat återerövras av senare generationer. Han skriver om de trettio år, 1860-1890, när Västern blev USA och indianerna dukade under, fördrivna, bedragna, sjuka, mördade, berövade sitt livsuppehälle. Hans bok är fortfarande så stark för att den vibrerar av en väl avvägd blandning av harm och dokumentation. Den träffar precis där moralen sitter. Den här illustrerade versionen har alla förutsättningar att ge Dee Browns berättelse förlängt liv som dokumentär grundbok. Här finns nu inte bara vackra ökenlandskap och stereotypa porträtt utan framför allt fantastiska närstudier av kroppar och ansikten präglade av integritet. Oavsett om de tittar åt sidan eller ser in i kameran överväldigas betraktaren av styrkan i deras uttryck, i deras drömmar." Lars Åberg i Sydsvenskan OM FÖRFATTAREN Dorris Alexander Brown eller Dee Brown som han föredrog att kallas föddes den 29 februari 1908 i ett skogshuggarläger nära Alberta i Louisiana. Efter att hans far dött 1913 flyttadehan tillsammans med sin mor och sina två systrar till Arkansas. Redan som pojke väcktes Dee Browns intresse för Vilda Västern. Hans mormor berättade historier om hennes fars vän, den legendariske Davy Crockett något som senare inspirerade Brown till debutromanen Wave High the Banner från 1942. Samtidigt lärde han sig av sina indianska vänner att heja på skurkarna i västernfilmerna. Stor betydelse för Browns framtida inriktning hade också en lärare på Arkansas State Teachers College som tog honom med på två sommarresor västerut. "Han omvandlade mig till en Västernfantatiker", har Brown sagt. När Dee Brown var i tjugoårsåldern började han arbeta som bibliotekarie, först i Conway, Arkansas, och sedan i Urbana, Illinois, där han kom att stanna fram till pensioneringen. Parallellt med sitt arbete fortsatte Brown att skriva böcker.Sammanlagt blev det tjugonio stycken, varav elva romaner, nästan alla med Västernmotiv. Den sista boken, romanen The Way to a Bright Star, publicerades så sent som 1998. Den i särklass mest framgångsrika och inflytelserika är Begrav mitt hjärta vid Wounded Knee. I The Westerners från 1974 skrev Brown några rader som kanske säger något om vad hans ambitioner med boken var: Västern är en tragedi med komiska mellanspel. Det är en historia om gott och ont, ett moralitetsdrama med personifierade abstraktioner. Bara en episk poet, en Homeros, kan wförstå den amerikanska Västern och besjunga dess väsen i en kompakt volym. Dee Brown dog i sitt hem i Little Rock, Arkansas, den 12 december 2002.

A searing classic that restores the voices erased from America’s story.First published in 1970 and deeply relevant today, Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee transformed how the world saw American history. Drawing on firsthand accounts, autobiographies and government records, Brown chronicles the westward expansion of settlers and the devastating displacement of Native Americans, from the Navajo Long Walk to the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. Combining meticulous research with gripping storytelling, this definitive account of colonial conquest and cultural survival remains an essential text for anyone interested in American history, indigenous rights and the roots of modern injustice.

By the author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", this work portrays life in the American West from 1840 to the turn of the century. It interweaves stories of native Americans, ranchers and settlers, profiling figures such as Geronimo, Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp.

As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.

The U.S. Army built Fort Phil Kearny in the foothills of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains in 1866 to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail headed to Montana’s gold fields. The need for this protection arose because the Bozeman Trail cut through the heart of the last bountiful hunting grounds of the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and Northern Arapahos. The incursion by gold seekers led to direct competition with the allied tribes for food and supplies, and a series of violent encounters culminated in the Fetterman Fight on December 21, 1866, in which the army suffered its worst defeat on the northern plains until Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn ten years later. The battle became a cause cÉlÈbre and was the subject of a congressional investigation.Based on army records and firsthand reports, Dee Brown’s Fort Phil Kearny: An American Saga was the first detailed account of the battle and the loss of Lieutenant Fetterman’s eighty men. Shannon D. Smith provides an introduction to this new edition.

All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed.

Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On the condition they would not be sent south to fight their former comrades, they exchanged gray for blue uniforms. From 1864 to 1866 six regiments of Galvanized Yankees fought Indians, escorted supply trains along the Oregon and Sante Fe trails, accompanied expeditions, guarded surveying parties for the Union Pacific Railroad, and manned lonely outposts on the frontier. Dee Brown, the author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, tells what happened to a lost legion, unhonored and unsung.

On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000 warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne nations and were killed in the ensuing battle. Acclaimed historian Dee Brown traces the events of that day and of the weeks before, through the eyes and ears of seventeen participants from both sides, including Natives, scouts, soldiers, and civilians.Why did Custer divide his forces? Why did he not take his regiment’s Gatling guns? Why did he expect Sitting Bull to surrender without a fight? How did Sitting Bull’s vision at the sun dance on the Rosebud foretell the occasion and the outcome of the battle? How did war chiefs Crazy Horse and Gall take advantage of Custer’s tactical errors? And why did they preserve Custer’s body from mutilation?Showdown at Little Big Horn answers these and other questions, telling the story of the fight from many points of view, based on reports, diaries, letters, and testimony of the participants themselves. Together the accounts provide a gripping narrative of a punitive expedition gone badly awry and an assemblage of Native peoples who forestalled for a while the army’s domination of the northern plains.

Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates the history of the old West that’s filled with maps and vintage photographs.Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately “settled” the land. In the retelling of this oft-told saga, Brown has demonstrated once again his abilities as a master storyteller and an entertaining popular historian. By turns heroic, tragic, and even humorous, The American West brings to life American tragedy and triumph in the years from 1840 to the turn of the century, and a roster of characters both great and small: Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Dull Knife, Crazy Horse, Captain Jack, John H. Tunstall, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Buffalo Bill, and many others. The American West is about cattle and the railroads; it is about settlers who came to claim a land not originally their own and how they slowly imposed law and order on these wild and untamed places; and it is about the wanton destruction of the Native American way of life. This is epic history at its best and popular history at its most readable. This new work is culled from Dee Brown’s highly acclaimed writings, which instantly established him as one of America’s foremost Western authorities. Fully revised, rewritten, and edited into one seamless account of America’s most famous frontier, this epic narrative, along with the introduction and a chronological table of events, etches an unforgettable and poignant portrait. The American West is at once a tribute to the West and a majestic new peak for a writer whose long and successful career has been synonymous with excellence in frontier history.

The #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West."Strongly and ardently written." ―The New YorkerFirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture.Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won."One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages." ―The Washington PostThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

A Civil War history of the Confederate cavalrymen, Morgan''s Raiders, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.In this vibrant and thoroughly researched Civil War study, Dee Brown tells the story of Morgan''s Raiders, the Kentucky cavalrymen famed and feared for their attacks on the North. In 1861, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his brother-in-law Basil Duke put together a group of formidable horsemen and set to violent work. They began in their home state, staging raids, recruiting new soldiers, and intercepting Union telegraphs. Most were imprisoned after unsuccessful incursions into Ohio and Indiana years later, but some Raiders would escape, regroup, and fight again in different conflicts, participating in the so-called Great Conspiracy in Canada.The Bold Cavaliers is as engrossing in its historical detail as in its rich adventure.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

“One of the best studies that has been made of any sector of the Indian wars” from the #1 bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Chicago Tribune).  This dark, unflinching, and fascinating book is Dee Brown’s riveting account of events leading up to the Battle of the Hundred Slain—the devastating 1866 conflict that pitted Lakota, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne warriors, including Oglala chief Red Cloud, against the United States cavalry under the command of Captain William Fetterman. Providing a vivid backdrop to the battle, Brown offers a portrait of Wyoming’s Ft. Phil Kearney and the remarkable men who built and defended it. Based on a wealth of historical sources and sparked by Brown’s narrative genius, The Fetterman Massacre is an essential look at one of the frontier’s defining conflicts. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

The little-known true Civil War story of the Confederate soldiers who served in the Union Army by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.Historian Dee Brown uncovers an exciting episode in American history: During the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers opted to assist the Union Army rather than endure the grim conditions of POW camps. Regiments containing former Confederates were not trusted to go into battle against their former comrades, and instead were sent to the West as "outpost guardians," where they performed frontier duties, including escorting supply trains, rebuilding telegraph lines, and quelling uprisings from regional American Indian tribes, which were sweeping across the Plains. This is an account of an extraordinary, though often overlooked, group of men who served in unexpected ways at a pivotal moment in the nation''s history.From the bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Galvanized Yankees is "an accurate, interesting, and sometimes thrilling account of an unusual group of men [and] a fresh and informative study of the Old West in transition from frontier to stable society" (The New York Times Book Review).This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

The improbable Civil War raid that led to the Siege of Vicksburg, recounted by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.For two weeks in the spring of 1862, Colonel Benjamin Grierson and 1,700 Union cavalry troopers conducted a raid from Tennessee to Louisiana. It was intended to divert Confederate attention from Ulysses S. Grant''s army crossing the Mississippi River, a maneuver that would set the stage for the Siege of Vicksburg. Led by a former music teacher whose role in the Union cavalry was belied by his hatred of horses, Grierson''s Raid was not only brilliant, but improbably successful. The cavalrymen ripped up railway track, destroyed storehouses, took prisoners, and freed slaves. Colonel Grierson lost only three men through the whole expedition.Rich and detailed, Grierson''s Raid is the definitive work on one of the most astonishing missions of the Civil War''s early days.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

A fascinating history of women on America’s western frontier by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it’s the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too—and this book tells their stories.   At first, female pioneers were indeed rare—when the town of Denver was founded in 1859, there were only five women among a population of almost a thousand. But the adventurers arrived, slowly but surely. There was Frances Grummond, a sheltered Southern girl who married a Yankee and traveled with him out west, only to lose him in a massacre. Esther Morris, a dignified middle-aged lady, held a tea party in South Pass City, Wyoming, that would play a role in the long, slow battle for women’s suffrage. Josephine Meeker, an Oberlin College graduate, was determined to educate the Colorado Indians—but was captured by the Ute. And young Virginia Reed, only thirteen, set out for California as part of a group that would become known as the Donner Party.   With tales of notables such as Elizabeth Custer, Carry Nation, and Lola Montez, this social history touches upon many familiar topics—from the early Mormons to the gold rush to the dawn of the railroads—with a new perspective. This enlightening and entertaining book goes beyond characters like Calamity Jane to reveal the true diversity of the great western migration of the nineteenth century.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

"A fascinating story" of the railways that linked America from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Washington Post).Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable only by "the demonic power of the Iron Horse and its bands of iron track." Although the building of the great railroad is commonly known as a story of romance, adventure, and progress, it also has a dark side, as profiteers decimated American Indian tribes, exploited workers, and destroyed ecosystems. Despite this, by the turn of the twentieth century, five major railroads would span the continent.This account vividly illustrates the railroad builders'' breathtaking skill, ambition, and ingenuity. Dee Brown compellingly tells a high-stakes tale, an exhilarating history that still holds lessons for today."Once again Dee Brown is telling us one of the great American stories . . . I can''t think of a better way to tell our history than to follow the path of the lonesome whistle." —The New York Times Book Review"This tale of America''s Gilded Age is told with a vigor and irony that do full justice to its excesses, energies, venalities, and dreams." —NewsweekThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

The insightful and heartwarming memoir of one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated frontier writersDee Brown’s fascinating memoir describes a writer’s evolution—and a time when catching rides on trains or seeing the landing of a Curtiss Jenny airplane were simple and profound pleasures. Brown traces his upbringing in Arkansas in the early 1900s, and the oil boom that hit his tiny town. He writes of how he fell under the spell of books and history, and of his eventual work as a journalist and printer before finding his true love—the American West—which would lead to his penning the classic Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Written with gentle humor and a scholar’s curiosity, When the Century Was Young is a wistful look at youth during a poignant moment in American history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."Glorious . . . Do not miss a page." —Rocky Mountain NewsFrontier life, Dee Brown writes, "was hard, unpleasant most of the time," and "lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts." And yet, tall tales were the genre of the day, and humor, both light and dark, was abundant.In this historical account, Brown examines the aspects of the frontier spirit that would come to assume so central a position in American mythology. Split into sections—"Gambling, Violence, and Merriment," "Lawyers, Newsmen, and Other Professionals," and "Misunderstood Minorities" —it is mindful in its correction of certain stereotypes of Western life and is a mesmerizing account of an untamed nation and its wild, resilient settlers."An entertaining social history and a useful reminder of the merriment and amusement that existed, at least in small part, alongside the better-known frontier facts of loneliness, disease, and fear." —Milwaukee Journal SentinelThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

An in-depth exploration of a momentous year in American history from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.In 1876, America was eager to celebrate its centenary but questioned what might lie ahead. The American Republic had grown to four times its original population, and was in the midst of enormous changes. Industrialization was booming, and new energy sources were being used for fuel and power. People were suddenly less bound to agriculture, and there were revolutions in transportation and communication. It was a time of Indian wars, the first stirrings of the labor movement, and the burgeoning struggle for women''s and other civil rights. Historian Dee Brown takes the measure of America in a rare moment of reflection on the nation''s past, present, and future.The Year of the Century, 1876 was one of Brown''s favorites among his works. In page-turning prose, he tells of a tumultuous era and of a young nation taking stock.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

A gripping recreation of a notoriously bloody clash between US Army scouts and American Indian warriors, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.Historian Dee Brown dramatically recounts the nine-day siege between Plains tribes and Major James William Forsyth''s scouts. Based on historical sources, the novel is told from a variety of viewpoints, including that of Lieutenant Frederick Beecher, still wounded from the Civil War and charged with clearing out American Indian settlements to make way for the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Beecher is joined by General Sheridan and Major Forsyth, as well as the scouts—from seasoned frontiersmen to young boys—employed to take part in the perilous mission. On the other side are the famous American Indian players in the battle: Turkey Leg and Roman Nose.With this complex assortment of characters, Brown vividly recreates the 1868 siege, as well as the competing worldviews of life on the prairies.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

A Western saga of honor amid the nineteenth-century Indian Wars from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."I wished I was back in Texas and had never left there to end up scouting in such godforsaken country for an army dressed in blue."Such are the sentiments of John Singleterry as this gripping tale begins in the snowy wilderness. Singleterry and his partner, Peter Dunreath, are sent to scout ahead of their battalion when they''re taken captive by two fighters from the Cheyenne, a tribe not known for taking prisoners.One fighter is an old medicine woman, suspicious and eager to kill, while the other, a beautiful mixed-race girl named Marisa, wants to wait. The women tell the scouts about their tribe''s decimation during its forced relocation, and of multiple promises that have been broken—stories that force Singleterry to face difficult questions of love and desertion.Written by Dee Brown, an acclaimed chronicler of the drama of the American West and the conflicts between white men and Indians, this is a moving novel of torn loyalties set during one of the most tumultuous eras in Native American history. Cavalry Scout gives full-blooded reality to its time, and to both the settlers and natives at the heart of its story.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.