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Nov 29, 2019 · This story was originally published on Nov 29, 2019. Transcript Nearly five decades after Maria Campbell first published her seminal memoir Halfbreed , she says she finally feels like it's finished.
Jun 21, 2023 · Halfbreed was an instant bestseller and turned Campbell, now eighty-four, into a literary celebrity. Fifty years later, the memoir remains as captivating and unforgettable as it was on publication. It helped that Campbell, then thirty-three, was stylish and striking; one profile, in the Province, described her as “an intense, intelligent ...
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Sep 29, 2004 · life in the riveting historical biography "Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent", by David Fridtjof Halaas and Andrew E. Masich. William Bent was one of 11 children born to Silas Bent, a prominent judge, and Martha Kerr, a highborn of Virginia. The Bent ranch overlooked the Mississippi River.
In 1843, trader William Bent's marriage to one of his three Cheyenne wives, Owl Woman, produced a son who would lead a remarkable life. Born half-white and half-Indian, George Bent grew up on the pains of southeastern Colorado, was educated in white schools, fought briefly for the Confederacy, survived the Sand Creek massacre, negotiated the Medicine Lodge treaty, and aided the Cheyennes with ...
The uncommon life of George Bent-"halfbreed"-spanned one of the most eventful epochs in American history. Caught uneasily between two cultures in constant conflict, it is a life mirrored in the fictional character Jack Crabb in Thomas Berger's classic novel Little Big Man. Born in 1843 to the prominent white trader Colonel William Bent and his Indian wife, Owl Woman, George Bent was raised as ...
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Mar 16, 2005 · The story of George Bent is riveting. Halfbreed is history at its best. It is exceptionally well written and, at the same time, superbly researched and footnoted. Many historians and writers have incorporated bits and pieces of the Bent story into their work, but Halfbreed is the first attempt to tell the whole story.
- David F. Halaas, Andrew E. Masich
