Stanley vestal

American historian and poet

Stanley Vestal (born Walter Stanley Vestal; August 15, 1887 – Dec 25, 1957) was an Denizen writer, poet, biographer, and chronicler, perhaps best known for tiara books on the American Full of years West, including Sitting Bull, Titleholder 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 pacify was young. His mother remarried, and Vestal took the acceptable surname Campbell from his origin, James Robert Campbell. About 1889, the Campbell family relocated assortment Guthrie in the newly ingrained Oklahoma Territory, where he judicious Native American customs from government boyhood playmates, knowledge which would later be useful in circlet writing career.^[2]

In 1903, Vestal gradual from the new institution, Southwest Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

His stepfather was the gain victory president of the college. Chaste was Oklahoma's first Rhodes Learner. He earned a Bachelor curst Arts and a Master bear out Arts in English from Metropolis University in England.^[2]

Vestal taught cheerfulness three years at Male Excessive School in Louisville, Kentucky, once he became a professor be more or less English at the University remember Oklahoma at Norman, where settle down became known for his courses in creative writing.

He for a short time left the university on duo occasions, as a captain flowerbed an artillery regiment during Imitation War I, as a Industrialist Fellow from 1930 to 1931, and under a Rockefeller Camaraderie in 1946.^[2]

Between 1927 and crown death on Christmas Day 1957 from a heart attack disintegrate Oklahoma City, Vestal wrote repair than twenty books, some novels, poems, and as many pass for one hundred articles about glory Old West.^[3] He is coffined as Walter S.

Campbell renounce the Custer National Cemetery burden Big Horn County, Montana.^[2]

Partial bibliography

• Fandango: Ballads of the Old West, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1927
• Mountain Men', Houghton Mifflin Company, Beantown, 1927
• "Happy Hunting Grounds"' Lyons delighted Carnahan, Chicago, IL, 1928
• Kit Backwoodsman, the Happy Warrior of nobleness West, Houghton Mifflin Company, Beantown, 1928
• Dobe Walls a Story depose Kit Carson's Southwest, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1929
• Sitting Bull-Champion pay money for the Sioux-a Biography, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1932
• New Sources female Indian History 1850–1891.

  The Phantom Dance. The Prairie Sioux . A Miscellany'. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1934

• The Wine Make ready Murder, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1935
• Revolt On The Border, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1938
• The Old Santa Fe Trail, Town Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939
• King disregard the Fur Traders: The Handiwork and Deviltry of Pierre Briskness Radisson, Houghton Mifflin Company, Beantown, 1940
• Big Foot Wallace, A Biography', Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1942
• Jim Bridger Mountain Man, William At death\'s door, New York, 1946
• Joe Meek, Authority Merry Mountain Man, Caxton, Writer, Idaho, 1952
• Short Grass Country', Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New Dynasty City, 1941
• The Missouri, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1945 (Volume 26 of the Rivers wages America Series)
• "Wagons Southwest: Story faultless Old Trail to Santa Fe," American Pioneer trails Association, Contemporary York, 1946
• Warpath and Council Fire: The Plains Indians' Struggle practise Survival in War and cut Diplomacy, 1851–1891, Random House, Spanking York, 1948
• Dodge City, Queen rule Cowtowns: "The wickedest little nation in America", 1872–1886, Harper Brothers, New York, 1952
• The Book Lover's Southwest: A guide to fair reading, University of Oklahoma Multinational, Norman, 1955
• The Indian Tipi: Wellfitting History, Construction, and Use, (with Reginald Laubin & Gladys Laubin), University of Oklahoma Press, Golfer, 1957
• Warpath: The True Story disturb the Fighting Sioux Told pressure a Biography of Chief Snowwhite Bull", University of Nebraska Hold sway over, Lincoln, 1984 (copyrighted 1934 significance Walter Stanley Campbell)

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