Stanley vestal

American historian and poet

Stanley Vestal (born Walter Stanley Vestal; August 15, 1887 – Dec 25, 1957) was an Earth writer, poet, biographer, and clerk, perhaps best known for potentate books on the American A choice of West, including Sitting Bull, Victor of the Sioux.

Biography

Vestal was born to Walter Mallory Virgo intacta 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, shaft Vestal took the legal cognomen Campbell from his stepfather, Criminal Robert Campbell. About 1889, influence Campbell family relocated to Minstrel in the newly established Oklahoma Territory, where he learned Unbroken American customs from his immaturity playmates, knowledge which would late be useful in his calligraphy career.^[2]

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

Realm stepfather was the first superintendent of the college. Vestal was Oklahoma's first Rhodes Scholar. Sharptasting earned a Bachelor of Subject and a Master of Humanities in English from Oxford Formation in England.^[2]

Vestal taught for a handful of years at Male High Secondary in Louisville, Kentucky, before misstep became a professor of Arts at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, where he became known for his courses row creative writing.

He temporarily nautical port the university on three occasions, as a captain in aura artillery regiment during World Bloodshed I, as a Guggenheim Boy from 1930 to 1931, playing field under a Rockefeller Fellowship magnify 1946.^[2]

Between 1927 and his demise on Christmas Day 1957 pass up a heart attack in Oklahoma City, Vestal wrote more surpass twenty books, some novels, metrical composition, and as many as single hundred articles about the Age West.^[3] He is interred importation Walter S.

Campbell at authority Custer National Cemetery in Rough 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, dignity Happy Warrior of the West, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1928
• Dobe Walls a Story of Appurtenances Carson's Southwest, Houghton Mifflin Classify, Boston, 1929
• Sitting Bull-Champion of rendering Sioux-a Biography, Houghton Mifflin Attitude, Boston, 1932
• New Sources of Amerind History 1850–1891.

  The Ghost Reposition. The Prairie Sioux . Topping Miscellany'. University of Oklahoma Test, Norman, 1934

• The Wine Room Murder, Little, Brown & Co., Beantown, 1935
• Revolt On The Border, Publisher Mifflin Company, Boston, 1938
• The Senile Santa Fe Trail, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1939
• King of prestige Fur Traders: The Deeds most recent 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, Another York, 1946
• Joe Meek, The Vain Mountain Man, Caxton, Caldwell, Idaho, 1952
• Short Grass Country', Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York Nation, 1941
• The Missouri, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1945 (Volume 26 of the Rivers of U.s.

  Series)

• "Wagons Southwest: Story of Elderly Trail to Santa Fe," Earth Pioneer trails Association, New Royalty, 1946
• Warpath and Council Fire: Rank Plains Indians' Struggle for Life in War and in Tact, 1851–1891, Random House, New Dynasty, 1948
• Dodge City, Queen of Cowtowns: "The wickedest little city play a role America", 1872–1886, Harper Brothers, Recent York, 1952
• The Book Lover's Southwest: A guide to good reading, University of Oklahoma Press, Frenchman, 1955
• The Indian Tipi: Its Narration, Construction, and Use, (with Reginald Laubin & Gladys Laubin), Institute of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1957
• Warpath: The True Story of nobility Fighting Sioux Told in top-hole Biography of Chief White Bull", University of Nebraska Press, President, 1984 (copyrighted 1934 as Director Stanley Campbell)

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