Franklin Library: DEE BROWN: CREEK MARY'S BLOOD: NATIVE AMERICANS:CREEKS

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Dee Brown's "Creek Mary's Blood," a Limited edition, one of the FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, Illustrated by Joseph Isom, published in 1980. Bound in brown leather, the book has brown moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Dee Brown, who lived from 1908-2002, was an American novelist, historian and librarian. Born in Alberta, Louisiana, a sawmill town, Brown grew up in Ouachita County, Arkansas, which experienced an oil boom when he was thirteen years old. Brown's mother later relocated to Little Rock so he and his brother and two sisters could attend a better high school. 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. While attending home games by the baseball team the Arkansas Travelers, he became acquainted with Chief Yellow Horse, a pitcher. 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. Brown enrolled at Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway, Arkansas, where his mentor, history professor Dean D. McBrien, helped give him the idea to become a writer. They traveled west along with other students on two occasions in a Model T Ford. Later Brown became a librarian for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1934 to 1942. During the war, Brown worked for the U.S. Department of War as a librarian. From 1948 to 1972, he was a librarian at the University of Illinois, where he had gained a master's degree in library science. In 1971, his book "My Heart at Wounded Knee" was published and became a best seller. His novel, "Creek Mary's Blood" opens with the following sentence: "The Montana landscape is always startling when one comes there from the East. . . .I had known her name, Mary Kingsley, or Creek Mary since the days of my Georgia youth. She was a full-blood Muskogee, or Creek Indian, daughter of Machichi, a famous chief who had been killed in a skirmish with colonists. After Machichi's death, Mary's people at Bluff Village regarded her as their leader, the Beloved Woman. Proud and hot tempered, she had turned on the colonists fro taking too much of her people's land. By all accounts she was a great beauty who had charmed male colonists of Georgia, from General Oglethorpe to trade John Kingsley, whom she married." The book is divided into three parts: THE EASTERNERS, THE WESTERNERS, and THE SURVIVORS. Some of the characters include: Swift Eagle, Buffalo Calf Woman, Little Cloud, Amayi, Young Opothle, Priscilla, White Horn, Mary Amayi, Sun Spirit Girl, Sweet Medicine Woman, Saviah Manning, Rising Fawn, Schoya, Opothle, Creek Mary, and John Kingsley. Brown wrote in the 'Special message' to subscribers: Although "Creek Mary's Blood" is a novel, many of the personae were real people, who lived or could have lived through the events that have been recounted." 398 pages. I offer combine shipping.

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