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Black Gun, Silver Star

Art T. Burton
Black Gun Silver Star Book PDF

Author : Art T. Burton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.

Bad News for Outlaws

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Bad News for Outlaws Book PDF

Author : Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,5 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

The Legend of Bass Reeves

Gary Paulsen
The Legend of Bass Reeves Book PDF

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,6 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.

Black, Red, and Deadly

Arthur T. Burton
Black Red and Deadly Book PDF

Author : Arthur T. Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063151768

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Black, Red, and Deadly by Arthur T. Burton Pdf

Black and Indian gunfighters in the Indian Territory

The Black Badge

Paul L. Brady
The Black Badge Book PDF

Author : Paul L. Brady
Publisher : Professional Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 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.

Black Gun, Silver Star

Art T. Burton
Black Gun Silver Star Book PDF

Author : Art T. Burton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496233424

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Black Gun, Silver Star by Art T. Burton Pdf

In this new edition of the biography of Bass Reeves, who was formerly enslaved and then served as a peace officer in and around late nineteenth-century Indian Territory, Art Burton traces Reeves’s presence in contemporary national media and in popular modern media.

Cherokee Bill

Art T. Burton
Cherokee Bill Book PDF

Author : Art T. Burton
Publisher : Eakin Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681791560

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Cherokee Bill by Art T. Burton Pdf

Once upon a time in the late nineteenth century, there was an outlaw that captured the imagination of the American public like no other. He can be compared to John Dillinger or Pretty Boy Floyd of the 1930s. Like both of these men, he garnered national press for his exploits; the well-known New York Times had a running commentary on his actions and deeds. This outlaw's name was Crawford Goldsby, better known as Cherokee Bill.Cherokee Bill was every bit as colorful and outrageous as any criminal of the western frontier, perhaps even more so. There were a few things about him that made him truly unique for a famous desperado of the purple sage. First and foremost, he was an African American living in the Indian Territory. He was also Native American, Bill was a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, as a freedman, from his mother's lineage.Compare Cherokee Bill to Billy the Kid, (Billy Antrim), of New Mexico Territory fame. Although both outlaws received national media attention for their crimes while they were living, Billy the Kid was remembered and immortalized in books and films in the twentieth century; this did not occur for Cherokee Bill. Art Burton's newest book will help change that.

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves

Sidney Thompson
Follow the Angels Follow the Doves Book PDF

Author : Sidney Thompson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.

California Soul

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,Eddie S. Meadows
California Soul Book PDF

Author : Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,Eddie S. Meadows
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0520206282

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California Soul by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,Eddie S. Meadows Pdf

"Documented with great care and affection, this book is filled with revelations about the intermingling of peoples, styles of music, business interests, night-life pleasures, and the strange ways lived experience shaped black music as America's music in California." —Charles Keil, co-author of Music Grooves

Mustang Ride

Kelly Wilson
Mustang Ride Book PDF

Author : Kelly Wilson
Publisher : Random House New Zealand
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143770176

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Mustang Ride by Kelly Wilson Pdf

The adventures of the Wilson sisters in the American West. This is the third book from bestselling author and television star Kelly Wilson. Kelly's first two books, For the Love of Horses and Stallion Challenges were full of stories from the Wilsons' quest to save wild Kaimanawas from the government cull. This time the Wilsons are taking on a new challenge, to tame mustangs at a ranch in Wyoming for competition in the Extreme Mustang Makeover. Join the Wilsons as they take on an adventure with a surprising twist, and a horse trek across six states in the American west.

Guns Up!

Johnnie Clark
Guns Up Book PDF

Author : Johnnie Clark
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307778550

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Guns Up! by Johnnie Clark Pdf

THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only eighteen when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth. The Marines who fought and bled and died were ordinary men, many still teenagers, but the selfless bravery they showed day after day in a nightmarish jungle war made them true heroes. This new edition of Guns Up!, filled with photographs and updated information about those harrowing battles, also contains the real names of these extraordinary warriors and details of their lives after the war. The book's continuing success is a tribute to the raw courage and sacrifice of the United States Marines.

Hell on the Border

Sidney Thompson
Hell on the Border Book PDF

Author : Sidney Thompson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 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.

Imagining the African American West

Blake Allmendinger
Imagining the African American West Book PDF

Author : Blake Allmendinger
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803210677

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Imagining the African American West by Blake Allmendinger Pdf

The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with Imagining the African American West?the first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. ø Allmendinger charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through his exploration of novels, histories, autobiographies, science fiction, mysteries, formula westerns, melodramas, experimental theater, and political essays, as well as rap music and film. He examines the histories of James P. Beckwourth and Oscar Micheaux; slavery, the Civil War, and the significance of the American frontier to blacks; and the Harlem Renaissance, the literature of urban unrest, rap music, black noir, and African American writers, including Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley. His study utilizes not only the works of well-known African American writers but also some obscure and neglected works, out-of-print books, and unpublished manuscripts in library archives. ø Much of the scholarly neglect of the ?Black West? can be blamed on how the American West has been imagined, constructed, and framed in scholarship to date. In his study, Allmendinger provides the appropriate theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts for understanding the literature and suggests new directions for the future of black western literature.

The Cowboy Legend

John Jennings
The Cowboy Legend Book PDF

Author : John Jennings
Publisher : West
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1552385280

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The Cowboy Legend by John Jennings Pdf

Annotation Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel. This title details the evidence that Everett Johnson a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy.

The Line which Separates

Sheila McManus
The Line which Separates Book PDF

Author : Sheila McManus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803232373

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The Line which Separates by Sheila McManus Pdf

Nations are made and unmade at their borders, and the forty-ninth parallel separating Montana and Alberta in the late nineteenth century was a pivotal Western site for both the United States and Canada. Blackfoot country was a key site of Canadian and American efforts to shape their nations and national identities. The region?s landscape, aboriginal people, newcomers, railroads, and ongoing cross-border ties all challenged the governments? efforts to create, colonize, and nationalize the Alberta-Montana borderlands. The Line Which Separates makes an important and useful comparison between American and Canadian government policies and attitudes regarding race, gender, and homesteading. ø Federal visions of the West in general and the borderlands in particular rested on overlapping sets of assumptions about space, race, and gender; those same assumptions would be used to craft the policies that were supposed to turn national visions into local realities. The growth of a white female population in the region, which should have ?whitened? and ?easternized? the region, merely served to complicate emerging categories. Both governments worked hard to enforce the lines that were supposed to separate "good" land from "bad," whites from aboriginals, different groups of newcomers from each other, and women's roles from men's roles. The lines and categories they depended on were used to distinguish each West, and thus each nation, from the other. Drawing on a range of sources, from government maps and reports to oral testimony and personal papers, The Line Which Separates explores the uneven way in which the borderlands were superimposed on Blackfoot country in order to divide a previously cohesive region in the late nineteenth century.