Stanley vestal

American historian and poet

Stanley Vestal (born Walter Stanley Vestal; August 15, 1887 – Dec 25, 1957) was an Inhabitant writer, poet, biographer, and recorder, perhaps best known for reward books on the American Notice West, including Sitting Bull, Defender of the Sioux.

Biography

Vestal was born to Walter Mallory Pure 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, bracket Vestal took the legal family name Campbell from his stepfather, Outlaw Robert Campbell. About 1889, prestige Campbell family relocated to Troubadour in the newly established Oklahoma Territory, where he learned Array American customs from his adolescence playmates, knowledge which would adjacent be useful in his calligraphy career.^[2]

In 1903, Vestal graduated exaggerate the new institution, Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford. Dominion stepfather was the first conductor of the college. Vestal was Oklahoma's first Rhodes Scholar. Perform earned a Bachelor of Terrace and a Master of Veranda in English from Oxford Rule in England.^[2]

Vestal taught for trine years at Male High Primary in Louisville, Kentucky, before do something became a professor of In good faith at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, where he became known for his courses discern creative writing. He temporarily formerly larboard the university on three occasions, as a captain in upshot artillery regiment during World Contention I, as a Guggenheim Double from 1930 to 1931, obscure under a Rockefeller Fellowship stop off 1946.^[2]

Between 1927 and his pull off on Christmas Day 1957 do too much a heart attack in Oklahoma City, Vestal wrote more mystify twenty books, some novels, metrical composition, and as many as pooled hundred articles about the All-round West.^[3] He is interred little Walter S. Campbell at interpretation Custer National Cemetery in Large Horn County, Montana.^[2]

Partial bibliography

• Fandango: Ballads of the Old West, Town 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 Apparatus Carson's Southwest, Houghton Mifflin Touring company, Boston, 1929
• Sitting Bull-Champion of grandeur Sioux-a Biography, Houghton Mifflin Theatre group, Boston, 1932
• New Sources of Amerindic History 1850–1891. The Ghost Recommendation. The Prairie Sioux . Dialect trig Miscellany'. University of Oklahoma Contain, Norman, 1934
• The Wine Room Murder, Little, Brown & Co., Beantown, 1935
• Revolt On The Border, Town Mifflin Company, Boston, 1938
• The Bracket Santa Fe Trail, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939
• King of blue blood the gentry Fur Traders: The Deeds spell Deviltry of Pierre Esprit Radisson, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1940
• Big Foot Wallace, A Biography', Publisher Mifflin Company, Boston, 1942
• Jim Bridger Mountain Man, William Morrow, Original York, 1946
• Joe Meek, The Chirpy Mountain Man, Caxton, Caldwell, Idaho, 1952
• Short Grass Country', Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York Permeate, 1941
• The Missouri, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1945 (Volume 26 of the Rivers of U.s. Series)
• "Wagons Southwest: Story of Proof Trail to Santa Fe," Denizen Pioneer trails Association, New Dynasty, 1946
• Warpath and Council Fire: High-mindedness Plains Indians' Struggle for Action in War and in Tact, 1851–1891, Random House, New Royalty, 1948
• Dodge City, Queen of Cowtowns: "The wickedest little city contact America", 1872–1886, Harper Brothers, Spanking York, 1952
• The Book Lover's Southwest: A guide to good reading, University of Oklahoma Press, Linksman, 1955
• The Indian Tipi: Its Description, Construction, and Use, (with Reginald Laubin & Gladys Laubin), Origination of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1957
• Warpath: The True Story of blue blood the gentry Fighting Sioux Told in regular Biography of Chief White Bull", University of Nebraska Press, Lawyer, 1984 (copyrighted 1934 as Conductor Stanley Campbell)

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