Allen, Terry D.

Under the pseudonym T.D. Allen, Don B. and Terril Diener Allen (1908- ) wrote historical fiction and non-fiction about the West and Native Americans. They were best known for Doctor in buckskin (1951), based on the story of Marcus Whitman, a doctor and missionary in the Oregon territory; Troubled border (1954), about John McLoughlin, head of the Hudson Bay Company's outpost at Fort Vancouver; Navajos have five fingers (1963), an account of the couple's stay at a Navajo reservation and the people they met there; and Miracle Hill (1967), the story of a young Navajo boy, Mitchell Blackhorse. Terry Diener was a professor of creative writing; director of communications arts for the U.S. Government's Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1968-1974; and lecturer and specialist on American Indians at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1969-1974.

From the description of Don B. and Terry Diener Allen papers, 1951-1967. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122559054

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