Dee Alexander Brown Boeken

'Dit is het einde van een legende, de onthulling van een bittere waarheid; nooit tevoren werden de ontzettende gebeurtenissen beschreven als in deze Indiaanse geschiedenis van hun ondergang. Met bloed en tranen is dit boek geschreven.' -C.W. Ceram Begraaf mijn hart bij de bocht van de rivier verhaalt, na een inleidend hoofdstuk tot 1492, van de periode 1830 tot 1890, het tijdvak waarin een definitief einde kwam aan de vrijheid van de oorspronkelijke bewoners van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. Dee Brown heeft die catastrofale periode beschreven vanuit het gezichtspunt van de Indianen. 'Een op historische stukken en getuigenissen steunende documentaire, maar duizendmaal spannender en dramatischer dan welk wild-westverhaal voor de televisie ook, of alle zeventig boeken van Karl May. Een huiveringwekkende tragedie.' - Willem Brandt 'Los van zijn waarde als leesevenement heeft het gigantische succes van dit boek de mythe doen wijken voor de historische waarheid.' - Elseviers Literair Supplement

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.

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)

A true classic of American history, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell in their won words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, this book changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.

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.

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.

Sam Morrison, ein Zeitungsreporter, bemüht sich um 1866, die Identität und die Ereignisse um den Tod des legendären Kämpfers Major Rawley aufzuklären.