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Dee Brown, our foremost popular historian of the American West, has been exploring its "true history" for more than 50 years in some 30 books and dozens of articles. Known for his forceful and well-documented narratives, Dee Brown changed the way many people look at the West. This collection spans 100 years of history. Included are pieces on noted figures such as Lewis and Clark and Geronimo, stories of the Pony Express riders, 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, the Plains Indians, war and peace between whites and Indians, and an assortment of intrigues, crimes and scandals. Containing some of Brown's best work, this book will captivate readers with an interest in a perennially fascinating chapter of our history.
About the Authors:
D. Alexander Brown was born in Alberta, Louisiana, in 1908 and raised in Arkansas. Brown has received numerous awards for his writings. His most famous work, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1971), sold over 4 million copies, was translated into some 17 languages, and is still in print.
Stan Banash, who reviews nonfiction books on the American West, has contributed feature articles to various national magazines. Banash is a member of Western Writers of America, the Western History Association, and Westerners International.
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Feroz Vilsing
reviewed The Best of Dee Brown's West on May 09, 2019
The Best of Dee Brown's West
Dull.
And disappointingly so.
If you went to college or have read any book reviews in the last 20 years, then you KNOW Alice Munro's work is one of the canons of modern literature (because all your big-brained English teachers say so)....these stories jut fall flat, never ripening into the colorful, fully fledged narratives that one might expect from someone who's won every lit prize known to man.
The stories in "Castle Rock" are based on Munro's own ancestors in Scotland and their journey to America, but instead of people who have depth and energy, we end up with lackluster, paper doll-like figures whose feelings are ever so subtly hinted at but never fleshed out.
I'd read the title story years ago in college or another collection -- can't remember which now -- and I had this on my shelves for years ever since looking forward to finally sitting down to read the entire collection, but I actually feel like I'm in college again -- reading "important" work by "important" writers and trying to figure out why they're considered this way.
I'll still read Munro's other work, but this felt like one of those late-career books published by one of the greats -- and not edited much -- because they knew her name on the dust jacket would sell.
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