William Brandon (author)
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William Edward Brandon (September 21, 1914 – April 11, 2002) was an American writer and historian best known for his work about
Early life
Brandon was born in Kokomo, Indiana, but spent his childhood in various locales, including the Yucatán and New Mexico. He held a brief job in a steel mill, before he began working as a professional writer in 1938, although this was interrupted by his service as a photographer for the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II.[1]
Works
Brandon published a variety of
.By the 1950s, he began pursuing his interest in non-fiction writing and in 1955 produced an account of John Charles Frémont's 1848 attempt to cross the Rocky Mountains in his book The Men and the Mountain.[3]
Although Brandon's formal education ended after high school, his scholarship was sufficiently respected that he was from 1966–1967 a visiting professor at the
Death and legacy
Brandon died in Clearlake, California, on April 11, 2002, of cancer.[1] His last book, The Rise and Fall of North American Indians: From Prehistory Through Geronimo, was published posthumously the year after his death.[4]
Literary works
- The Dangerous Dead (1943) Dodd, Mead & Company
- The Men and the Mountain (1955) ISBN 0-8371-5873-7. An account of Frémont'sfailed fourth expedition.
- The American Heritage Book of Indians (1961) ISBN 0-517-39180-5. (short introduction by John F. Kennedy)
- The Magic World: American Indian Songs and Poems (1971) ISBN 0-8214-0991-3
- The Last Americans: The Indian in American Culture (1974) ISBN 0-07-007201-9
- New Worlds for Old: Reports from the New World and Their Effect on the Development of Social Thought in Europe, 1500–1800 (1986) ISBN 0-8214-0818-6
- Quivira: Europeans in the Region of the Santa Fe Trail, 1540–1820 (1991) ISBN 0-8214-0950-6
- The Rise and Fall of North American Indians: From Prehistory Through Geronimo (2003) ISBN 1-58979-211-4
References
- ^ a b c "William E. Brandon -- writer of Old West". SFGate. 2002-05-31. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
- ISBN 9780471003960– via Google Books.
- ^ THE MEN AND THE MOUNTAIN: Fremont's 4th Expedition by William Brandon | Kirkus Reviews.
- ISBN 9781570984525.