His best work, generally based on original documents, has portrayed the destruction of ancient Indian cultures and investigated other aspects of the toll exacted by the nation's westward expansion." Reviewing Brown's memoirs,
When the Century Was Young, in the
Washington Post Book World, John Espey noted that "Brown is a master of the plain style, modulating it skillfully to fit whatever engages his sense of wonder and discovery."
Brown began this "plain style" in 1942 with a fictional account of Davy Crockett, and has continued it throughout a career spanning nearly six decades. In 1998, at age ninety, he published yet another historical novel, The Way to Bright Star, chronicling the picaresque adventures of a fifteen-year-old boy during the American Civil War. In the intervening fifty-six years, he has written of pioneering men and women, of Civil War actions, of the construction of the transcontinental railroad, of cattle drives, and of beleaguered Native Americans. His style is engaging; his narratives entertaining as well as educational. Even in his fiction he attempts to stick as closely as possible to the historical record.
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