Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves (Race and Ethnicity in the American West)

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Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as certainly one of “eight notable Oklahomans,” the “most feared U.S. marshal within the Indian country.” That Reeves was once also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas makes his accomplishments the entire more remarkable. Bucking the odds (“I’m sorry, we didn’t keep black people’s history,” a clerk at certainly one of Oklahoma’s local historical societies answered a query), Art T. Burton sifts through fact and legend to find the reality about one of the outstanding peace officers in late nineteenth-century The usa—and possibly the greatest lawman of the Wild West era.
 
Fluent in Creek and other southern Native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Reeves was once exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws, and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas. A finalist for the 2007 Spur Award, sponsored by the Western Writers of The usa, Black Gun, Silver Star tells Bass Reeves’s story for the primary time and restores this remarkable figure to his rightful place within the history of the American West.

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