Stanley Vestal

Stanley Vestal

Stanley Vestal, né le 15 août 1877, mort le 25 décembre 1957, était un écrivain, poète et historien américain.

Biographie

Walter Stanley Vestal est né près de Severy (Kansas) le 15 août 1877, de Walter Vestal and Isabella « Daisy » Vestal. Le père de Vestal est mort quand il était jeune. Sa mère s'est remariée et Vestal a pris le nom Walter S. Campbell de son beau-père. Vers 1889, la famille de Campbell quitte le Kansas pour le Territoire de l'Oklahoma.

Vestal termine ses études à Southwestern Oklahoma State University et reçoit la Bourse Rhodes, obtenant un B.A. et un M.A. en anglais à Oxford. Vestal devient professeur à l'Université d'Oklahoma après avoir servi comme capitaine dans un régiment d'artillerie de la Première guerre mondiale.

Entre 1927 et sa mort d'une crise cardiaque à Noël 1957, Vestal écrit plus de vingt livres et 100 articles sur le vieil Ouest. Il est enterré au Custer National Cemetery de Bighorn County (Montana).

Bibliographie partielle

  • Fandango; Ballads of the Old West, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1927
  • Mountain Men', Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1927
  • Kit Carson, the Happy Warrior of the West, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1928
  • Dobe Walls a Story of Kit Carson's Southwest, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1929
  • Sitting Bull-Champion of the Sioux-a Biography, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1932
  • New Sources of Indian History 1850-1891. The Ghost Dance. The Prairie Sioux . A Miscellany'. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1934
  • The Wine Room Murder, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1935
  • *Revolt On The Border, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1938
  • Happy Hunting Grounds, Lyons and Carnahan, 1938, Chicago, IL
  • The Old Santa Fe Trail, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939
  • King of the Fur Traders: The Deeds and Deviltry of Pierre Esprit Radisson, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1940
  • Big Foot Wallace, A Biography', Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1942
  • Jim Bridger Mountain Man, William Morrow, New York, 1946
  • Joe Meek, The Merry Mountain Man, Caxton, Caldwell, Caldwell, ID, 1952
  • Short Grass Country', Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, NY., 1941
  • The Missouri, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1945 (Volume 46 of the Rivers of America Series)
  • Warpath and Council Fire: The Plains Indians' Struggle for Survival in War and in Diplomacy, 1851-1891, Random House, New York, 1948
  • Queen of Cowtowns: Dodge City,: "the wickedest little city in America," 1872 - 1886, Harper Brothers, New York, 1952
  • The Book Lover's Southwest: A guide to good reading, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1955
  • The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use, (with Reginald Laubin & Gladys Laubin, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1957

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