Bass Reeves: a History • a Novel • a Crusade, Volume 1: the Rise
Description:
This literary/historical novel details the life of African-American Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves between the years 1838-1862 and 1883-1884. One plotline depicts Reeves’s youth as a slave, including his service as a body servant to a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War. Another plotline depicts him years later, after Emancipation, at the height of his deputy career, when he has become the most feared, most successful lawman in Indian Territory, the largest federal jurisdiction in A…
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Date:
August 2015
Creator:
Thompson, Sidney, 1965-
Partner:
UNT Libraries