Dee Brown byl oceněný autor, jehož díla se zaměřovala na americkou historii, zejména na život na hranici a na přehlížená období občanské války. Jeho nejznámější dílo, které zásadně ovlivnilo světové vnímání historie amerických domorodců, odhaluje systematické ničení indiánských kmenů. Brown byl také knihovníkem, který svou literární kariéru budoval souběžně s prací v knihovnách.
When it comes to demystifying spiritual warfare and standing boldly in victory, no one has mentored me more than Dee Brown. The principles of lasting spiritual growth and strength are encompassed in each life-transforming chapter.--Pastor Diane Altman. (Practical Life)
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.
A definitive, illustrated, single-volume history of the American West, from the bestselling author of BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, Dee Brown.
Sam Morrison, ein Zeitungsreporter, bemüht sich um 1866, die Identität und die Ereignisse um den Tod des legendären Kämpfers Major Rawley aufzuklären.
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.
Das Feuerroß erreicht das Grosse Wasser im Westen - Der Bau der amerikanischen Eisenbahn - bk1561; Droemer Knaur Verlag; Dee Brown; pocket_book; 1981
Historisch overzicht van de ondergang der Noordamerikaanse Indianen in de tweede helft van de 19e eeuw. Vanaf de hoogste klassen van het basisonderwijs. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar.
