From 1948 to 1955, they published Fighting Indians of the West, Trail Driving Days, and The Settlers' West. After the war was over, Brown collaborated with Martin F. For most of World War II, he worked as a librarian at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. In 1942, Brown was drafted into the Army. Instead, Brown published a novel he wrote in two months called Wave the Banner High, about Davy Crockett. A satire would not be so easily accepted in those patriotic times. By the time Brown finished the book, public sentiment about the government had changed due to the war in Europe. He was commissioned to write a satirical book about bureaucracy in the federal government. He placed third in a short story contest and attracted the attention of literary agents. During the Depression, Brown married Sara Baird Stroud they had two children.īrown would work at the library, and after his children went to bed, he would write. Department of Agriculture's library until he was drafted by the Army. After graduation he was faced with the Depression and floated from job to job, eventually ending up in Washington, D.C. From there he went on to Arkansas State Teachers College, where he studied history and worked in the library. He and his cousin bought a hand press with which they published editorials attacking local entities like the oil companies for environmental degradation.Īfter high school, Brown worked as a reporter and printer for the newspaper in Harrison, Arkansas.

His social consciousness raised, Brown went on to found his own tabloid at the age of 15. Brown had friends who were Native American and they explained to him that the Indians on the big screen did not represent real Indians. Like many children of his generation, Brown spent a lot of time at the movies, enjoying films that portrayed cowboys as heroes of the West, conquering the savage Indians. Her father had known the legendary frontiersman and politician Davy Crocket, and she told the stories she knew about him as well as ones from the Civil War. While his mother worked days at a local store, Brown's grandmother took care of him. When Brown was five years old, his father died, forcing his mother to move to Ouachita County, Arkansas, where her family lived. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) details some of the violence and oppression suffered by Native Americans at the hands of American expansionism.

Dorris Alexander 'Dee' Brown was an American novelist and historian.

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