Dee Brown Papers

The Dee Brown Papers contain manuscript materials related to the 1956 novel Yellowhorse. Yellowhorse was Brown's second novel, and first to be set in the frontier west. It revolves around the defense of Fort Yellowhorse against the Sioux, and the use of the hot-air balloon Intrepid. In the introduction to the original paperback version, Brown notes that:

"This is Tom Easterwood's story of the Yellowhorse incident, with added details supplied by Chief Spotted Wolf in the last year of his life, and with some official data obtained from the dusty files of the old Army Balloon Corps."

Included in the collection are substantial handwritten research notes and draft pages, as well as the first typewritten draft, a copyedited version, and the galley proof for the novel. Two brief pieces of correspondence from Brown's publisher are included as well.

This collection will be of use to those studying the work of Dee Brown, those interested in different fictional perspectives of westward expansion, and those interested in the stages of writing and publishing a novel in the 1950s.