
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Brown's best-known and most influential work, and a central example of his Native American history.
Author guide
Dee Brown (1908–2002) was an Arkansas-born American historian, novelist, memoirist, and librarian. He worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and later served as an agricultural librarian and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Brown wrote more than twenty-five books, including co-authored illustrated histories with Martin F. Schmitt, historical novels, juvenile works, and narrative histories. His best-known book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, presents the history of nineteenth-century westward expansion from Native American perspectives.
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Brown's best-known and most influential work, and a central example of his Native American history.
Brown's first published novel and the starting point for his fiction.
Read in order
trilogy · complete
Three illustrated frontier histories co-authored by Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt and built around historical photographs.
Outside the series
nonfiction · 1954
novel · 1956
novel · 1958
nonfiction · 1958
nonfiction · 1959
novel · 1960
nonfiction · 1962
nonfiction · 1963
novel · 1964
nonfiction · 1966
historical novel · 1967
nonfiction · 1970
nonfiction · 1972
nonfiction · 1974
nonfiction · 1977
novel · 1980
nonfiction · 1982
novel · 1983
nonfiction · 1991
illustrated nonfiction · 1996
young adult novel · 1998
memoir · 1993
folktale collection · 1979