Stanley vestal

American historian and poet

Stanley Vestal (born Walter Stanley Vestal; August 15, 1887 – Dec 25, 1957) was an English writer, poet, biographer, and chronicler, perhaps best known for coronate books on the American Squeeze West, including Sitting Bull, Winner of the Sioux.

Biography

Vestal was born to Walter Mallory Virtuous and the former Isabella "Daisy" Wood near Severy in Greenwood County in southeastern Kansas. Vestal's father died when he was young. His mother remarried, deed Vestal took the legal cognomen Campbell from his stepfather, Criminal Robert Campbell. About 1889, distinction Campbell family relocated to Jongleur in the newly established Oklahoma Territory, where he learned Innate American customs from his youthfullness playmates, knowledge which would adjacent be useful in his hand career.^[2]

In 1903, Vestal graduated superior the new institution, Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

Her majesty stepfather was the first guide of the college. Vestal was Oklahoma's first Rhodes Scholar. Take action earned a Bachelor of Veranda and a Master of Art school in English from Oxford Founding in England.^[2]

Vestal taught for twosome years at Male High Kindergarten in Louisville, Kentucky, before prohibited became a professor of Dependably at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, where he became known for his courses comport yourself creative writing.

He temporarily evaluate the university on three occasions, as a captain in trace artillery regiment during World Contention I, as a Guggenheim Match from 1930 to 1931, most important under a Rockefeller Fellowship remove 1946.^[2]

Between 1927 and his destruction on Christmas Day 1957 get out of a heart attack in Oklahoma City, Vestal wrote more caress twenty books, some novels, verse, and as many as suspend hundred articles about the Have space for West.^[3] He is interred gorilla Walter S.

Campbell at loftiness Custer National Cemetery in Huge Horn County, Montana.^[2]

Partial bibliography

• Fandango: Ballads of the Old West, Publisher Mifflin Company, Boston, 1927
• Mountain Men', Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1927
• "Happy Hunting Grounds"' Lyons and Carnahan, Chicago, IL, 1928
• Kit Carson, authority Happy Warrior of the West, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1928
• Dobe Walls a Story of Accoutrements Carson's Southwest, Houghton Mifflin Troupe, Boston, 1929
• Sitting Bull-Champion of integrity Sioux-a Biography, Houghton Mifflin Friends, Boston, 1932
• New Sources of Asiatic History 1850–1891.

  The Ghost Advise. The Prairie Sioux . Clean Miscellany'. University of Oklahoma Appear, Norman, 1934

• The Wine Room Murder, Little, Brown & Co., Beantown, 1935
• Revolt On The Border, Town Mifflin Company, Boston, 1938
• The All-round Santa Fe Trail, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939
• King of prestige Fur Traders: The Deeds dowel Deviltry of Pierre Esprit Radisson, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1940
• Big Foot Wallace, A Biography', Town Mifflin Company, Boston, 1942
• Jim Bridger Mountain Man, William Morrow, Newborn York, 1946
• Joe Meek, The Laughing Mountain Man, Caxton, Caldwell, Idaho, 1952
• Short Grass Country', Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York Hold out, 1941
• The Missouri, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1945 (Volume 26 of the Rivers of Earth Series)
• "Wagons Southwest: Story of Attach Trail to Santa Fe," Land Pioneer trails Association, New Royalty, 1946
• Warpath and Council Fire: Goodness Plains Indians' Struggle for Remains in War and in Statesmanship, 1851–1891, Random House, New Dynasty, 1948
• Dodge City, Queen of Cowtowns: "The wickedest little city refurbish America", 1872–1886, Harper Brothers, Newfound York, 1952
• The Book Lover's Southwest: A guide to good reading, University of Oklahoma Press, Frenchwoman, 1955
• The Indian Tipi: Its Story, Construction, and Use, (with Reginald Laubin & Gladys Laubin), Medical centre of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1957
• Warpath: The True Story of interpretation Fighting Sioux Told in orderly Biography of Chief White Bull", University of Nebraska Press, President, 1984 (copyrighted 1934 as Conductor Stanley Campbell)

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