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Bruce Cutler

Born: 1930 in Evanston, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Cutler was born in Evanston, Illinois.

Biography: Cutler was an educator and poet. In addition to penning nearly a dozen volumes of prose, taught English and humanities at Wichita State University. He was responsible for developing the creative writing program there during the late 1960's and in 1978 was named Adele M. Davis Distinguishe Professor of Humanities.


Awards:
  • -- The Year of the Green Wave, ''First Book Poetry Award in 1960 from the University of Nebraska''

Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Bruce Cutler on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bruce++cutler


Selected Titles

  A west wind rises :
ISBN: 0939391260 OCLC: 44410057

Woodley Press : Topeka, Kan. : ©1999.

At war with Mexico :
ISBN: 0806132647 OCLC: 44493246

University of Oklahoma Press, Norman : ©2001.

Seeing the darkness :
ISBN: 1886157162 OCLC: 37870728

BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City : ©1998.

  The massacre at Sand Creek :
ISBN: 0585168652 OCLC: 44955025

University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla. : 1997, ©1995.

A fictionalized account of the massacre by the U.S. Army of a Cheyenne village after it had raised the white flag. The event occurred in 1864 in Colorado. The commander, Colonel John Chivington, was never brought to justice, while Captain Silas Soule, who with his company refused to participate, was killed as a traitor. Five hundred people died. By the author of The Dark Fire.

The massacre at Sand Creek :
ISBN: 0806129905 OCLC: 31044871

University of Oklahoma Press, Norman : ©1995.

A fictionalized account of the massacre by the U.S. Army of a Cheyenne village after it had raised the white flag. The event occurred in 1864 in Colorado. The commander, Colonel John Chivington, was never brought to justice, while Captain Silas Soule, who with his company refused to participate, was killed as a traitor. Five hundred people died. By the author of The Dark Fire.

 

 

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