Stanley vestal

Stanley Vestal was an American writer, poet, biographer, and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the American Old West, including Sitting Bull.

A prolific writer, Stanley Vestal published several novels, none critically acclaimed; his primary contribution lay in nonfiction.

Stanley Vestal was an American writer, poet, biographer, and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the American Old West, including Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux.

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Includes the names: Stanley Vestal, Stanley C. Vestal, Walter Stanley Vestal Campbell

Image credit: Stanley Vestal, University of Oklahoma English professor known of his Western USA history books

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Disclaimer: I review books on how they stand alone without regards to anyone’s personal views about the author. I review based upon readability and how the book affects my life for good, and less upon literary style.

I love this book and the light it sheds on many aspects of Jim Bridger's life, the life of Native Americans, and the wild nature of the west in those days. Jim Bridger obviously was very skilled because he kept his scalp and survived harsh conditions. There are many aspects of show more life that can be enriched or improved by following his example.
One such trait is his kindness and generosity as quoted in the book, "He had learned the hardest way that a man's wi

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Books by Stanley Vestal

Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
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Joe Meek: The Merry Mountain Man
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avg rating — 54 ratings — published — 14 editions

Sitting Bull: mästare of the Sioux (Volume 46) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
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avg rating — 49 ratings — published — 28 editions

Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief vit Bull (Bison Book S)
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avg rating — 29 ratings — published — 10 editions

Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns: "the Wickedest Little City in America"
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avg rating — 18 ratings — published

The Old Santa Fe Trail
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avg rating — 13 ratings — published — 9 editions

The Missouri (Rivers of America, #26)
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avg rating — 11 ratings — published — 9 editions

Mountain Men (Essay Index Reprint Series)

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Stanley Vestal

American historian and poet

Stanley Vestal
Born	Walter Stanley Vestal ()August 15, Severy, Kansas, U.S.
Died	December 25, () (aged&#;70) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Resting place	Custer National Cemetery Big Horn County, Montana
Alma&#;mater	Southwestern Oklahoma State University Merton College, Oxford^[1]
Occupation(s)	Author: Books of the Old West, including Dodge City, Queen of the Cowtowns Professor of English at University of Oklahoma
Spouse	Isabel Jones Campbell
Children	Two daughters

Stanley Vestal (born Walter Stanley Vestal; August 15, – December 25, ) was an American writer, poet, biographer, and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the American Old West, including Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux.

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Vestal was born to Walter Mallory Vestal and the former Isabella "Daisy" Wood near Severy in Greenwood County in southeastern Kansas. Vestal's father died when he