They traveled west along with other students on two occasions in a Model T Ford. McBrien, helped give him the idea to become a writer. His mentor, the history professor Dean D. He worked as a printer and reporter in Harrison, Arkansas, and decided to continue his education at Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway, Arkansas. His kindness, and a childhood friendship with a Creek boy, caused Brown to reject the descriptions of Native American peoples as violent and primitive, which dominated American popular culture at the time. While attending home games by the baseball team the Arkansas Travelers, he became acquainted with Chief Yellow Horse, a pitcher. He cited these authors as those most influential on his own work. He also discovered the works of Sherwood Anderson and John Dos Passos, and later William Faulkner and Joseph Conrad.

He spent much time in the public library reading the three-volume History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark which saw him develop an interest in the American West. Brown's mother later relocated to Little Rock so he and his brother and two sisters could attend a better high school. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), details the history of the United States' westward colonization of the continent between 18 from the point of view of Native Americans.īorn in Alberta, Louisiana, a sawmill town, Brown grew up in Ouachita County, Arkansas, which experienced an oil boom when he was thirteen years old. Dorris Alexander ' Dee' Brown (Febru– December 12, 2002) was an American novelist, historian, and librarian.

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