Blood Brothers

“A compelling narrative that reads like a novel.” – Cynthia Romanowski * Orange County Register * “The lives of two of the most iconic figures in American history intersect in a sad but fitting setting – a traveling Wild West show that gave both Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull second lives after their frontier days had ended. Deanne Stillman authentically recreates the lives and times of the killer of buffalo and the `killer of Custer’ who joined forces as popular entertainers.” – Tom Clavin, coauthor of The Heart of Everything That Is One of True West’s Best Biographies of the Year * True West * “Blood Brothers is a story of sorrow and triumph - the sorrow of Sitting Bull’s murder in 1890 and the triumph, barely understood at the time, of Buffalo Bill Cody’s central role in preserving the robust culture of the Lakota and Cheyenne people whom Sitting Bull had led in war. Deanne Stillman tells the dramatic story of these two men - enemies first, then showmen, and friends at the last.” – Thomas Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse “Like a latter-day Joan Didion, Deanne Stillman has carved out an aspect of the American West. Not empty but populated by spirits, human and animal, the ghosts of lost tribes and now a fascinating culture clash only she could have offered.” – Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare Wars “Deanne Stillman’s Blood Brothers is a thrilling and elegantly written saga anchored around the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody. By puncturing the mythology of the Wild West, Stillman proves once again that fact is always more surprising than fiction. A landmark achievement in American history!” – Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University, CNN Presidential Historian, and author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America “Stillman gives an account of the tragic murder of Sitting Bull that’s as good as any in the literature… . Thoughtful and thoroughly well-told-just the right treatment for a subject about which many books have been written before, few so successfully.” * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *

Deanne Stillman is a widely published, critically acclaimed writer. Her books include Blood Brothers (Ohioana Book Award Winner; Kirkus Reviews, starred review; “Best of the West 2018,” True West Magazine); Desert Reckoning (winner of the Spur and LA Press Club Awards for Nonfiction, an Amazon Editors Pick, based on a Rolling Stone piece), and Mustang, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In addition, she wrote the cult classic,Twentynine Palms, a Los Angeles Times bestseller that Hunter Thompson called “A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer.” She writes the “Letter from the West” column for the Los Angeles Review of Books and her plays have been produced and won prizes around the country. She’s a member of the core faculty at the UC Riverside-Palm Desert MFA Low Residency Creative Writing Program, where she teaches nonfiction.

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