Bass Reeves Lawman

Author : Sidney Thompson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496220202

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Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves by Sidney Thompson Pdf

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy U.S. marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave. After a childhood picking cotton, he became an expert marksman under his master’s tutelage, winning shooting contests throughout the region. His skill had serious implications, however, as the Civil War broke out. Reeves was given to his master’s mercurial, sadistic, Moby-Dick-quoting son in the hopes that Reeves would keep him safe in battle. The ensuing humiliation, love, heroics, war, mind games, and fear solidified Reeves’s determination to gain his freedom and drew him one step further on his fated path to an illustrious career. Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an important historical work that places Reeves in the pantheon of American heroes and a thrilling historical novel that narrates a great man’s exploits amid the near-mythic world of the nineteenth-century frontier.

Author : Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761357124

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Bad News for Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Pdf

Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding citizens respected him. As a peace officer, he was cunning and fearless. When a lawbreaker he

Author : Cherokee Parks,David Watts,Paul L. Thompson,Fred Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 169882968X

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Bass Reeves: Lawman by Cherokee Parks,David Watts,Paul L. Thompson,Fred Staff Pdf

Based on the truth life story of the most outstanding Marshal to ever serve in Judge Parkers court!Somewhere, somehow, someone has to pay. Someone, somehow, somewhere there's a murderer who has conspired to blow a world apart. Between the light and the endless night, he has taken someone's life. Enter Bass Reeves: The Marshal who will at all costs bring the guilty to justice. He will follow any criminal to the ends of the earth. There's no bribing him, there's no avoiding him. He is justice incarnate. He is judge, jury and executioner... He is the law for the lawless.This fast-moving, action-packed adventure filled with history is based on the life of Bass Reeves. Reeves truly was the most unusual U.S. marshal to ever serve this country. His accomplishments earned him the title of the most feared lawman in the wild and untamed Indian Territory. The reader will follow his never-ending contacts with murderers, robbers, horse thieves and whiskey runners.His remarkable life should be an inspiration for any reader. They will be impressed and astonished by his fearlessness, dedication to honor, commitment to the law and his impact on history.Bass Reeves Lawman is the second of a trilogy based on the true life of Bass Reeves, the first black U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi. You will follow him from as he meets famous people of the time. Pistol Pete, Belle Starr, Judge Isaac Parker, Heck Thomas and Sam Six killer were just some of the famous and infamous who crossed paths with this amazing man.

Author : Art T. Burton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496234469

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Black Gun, Silver Star by Art T. Burton Pdf

In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late nineteenth-century America--and perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West era. Bucking the odds ("I'm sorry, we didn't keep Black people's history," a clerk at one of Oklahoma's local historical societies answered one query), Art T. Burton traces Reeves from his days of slavery to his Civil War soldiering to his career as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, when he worked under "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker. Fluent in Creek and other regional Native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas. In this new edition Burton traces Reeves's presence in the national media of his day as well as his growing modern presence in popular media such as television, movies, comics, and video games.

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307513793

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The Legend of Bass Reeves by Gary Paulsen Pdf

Born into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West. Many "heroic lawmen" of the Wild West, familiar to us through television and film, were actually violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. But of all the sheriffs of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves. He was the most successful Federal Marshal in the US in his day. True to the mythical code of the West, he never drew his gun first. He brought hundreds of fugitives to justice, was shot at countless times, and never hit. Bass Reeves was a black man, born into slavery. And though the laws of his country enslaved him and his mother, when he became a free man he served the law, with such courage and honor that he became a legend.

Author : Georgianne Landy-Kordis
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511950021

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Bass Reeves - Lawman by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Pdf

Raised a slave, Bass Reeves becomes one of the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal's appointed by Judge Isaac Parker to uphold the law in the untamed, lawless Indian Territory in the 1800's.

Author : Calvin Sims
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1604580747

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Lawman by Calvin Sims Pdf

Author : Sidney Thompson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496225412

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Hell on the Border by Sidney Thompson Pdf

Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career. Famous for being a crack shot as well as for his nonviolent tendencies, Reeves uses his African American race to his strategic advantage. Along with a tramp or cowboy disguise, Reeves appears so nonthreatening that he often positions himself close enough to the outlaws he is pursuing to arrest them without bloodshed. After a series of heroic feats of capturing and killing infamous outlaws—most notably Jim Webb—and an introduction to Belle Starr, Reeves finds himself in the Fort Smith jail, charged with murder. This second book in the Bass Reeves Trilogy investigates what really happened when Reeves made the greatest mistake of his life on the heels of his greatest achievements.

Author : Phil Truman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-08
Category : Outlaws
ISBN : 1521018723

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West of the Dead Line by Phil Truman Pdf

The Dead Line, as it came to be called, was a railroad cutting across the middle of Indian Territory. It ran straight south from Caldwell, Kansas to Fort Reno, I.T., then down through the Cheyenne and Comanche and Kiowa lands, crossing the Red River into Bowie, Texas. It was a line on the map, a demarcation. West of it no law existed, only outlaws. On trails out there, the hunted posted notes on trees and posts to let lawmen know they'd be killed if they continued their pursuits west of the Dead Line.In the storied times of the American West, in what was called Indian Territory, no place came close to matching the dangers and mortality U.S.marshals faced doing their jobs. Those who survived became titans in the legends of the West, particularly one man called Bass Reeves. These stories are fiction; the encounters this lawman faced, and The Dead Line, were not.

Author : Charles Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798719522852

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Bass Reeves by Charles Ray Pdf

The first volume in a series giving a fictionalized account of the life of Bass Reeves, a feared lawman in Indian Territory in the late 1800s. Included in this volume are 'Bass and the Preacher, ' The Marshal and the Madam, ' and 'Renegade Roundup

Author : Fred Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:911136070

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Young Bass Reeves by Fred Staff Pdf

An account of the life of Bass Reeves.

Author : Paul L. Brady
Publisher : Professional Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 097596545X

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The Black Badge by Paul L. Brady Pdf

Biography of frontier Oklahoma lawman who was born a slave and became a legendary marshal.

Author : Calvin G. Sims, Sr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0615780121

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Lawman by Calvin G. Sims, Sr. Pdf

The true story of Bass Reeves, born a slave in Texas, he went on to become the "Greatest" lawman in the history of the West.

Author : Joel Christian Gill
Publisher : Tales of the Talented Tenth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1938486633

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Tales of the Talented Tenth - Bass Reeves by Joel Christian Gill Pdf

Learn about the extraordinary life of African American U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, the most successful lawman in the Old West.

Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : Five Star Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1594149402

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Legacy of a Lawman by Johnny D. Boggs Pdf

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