Black gun, silver star : the life and legend of frontier Marshal Bass Reeves / Art T. Burton.
Material type:
TextSeries: Race and ethnicity in the American WestPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: New editionDescription: xix, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781496233424
- 1496233425
- Reeves, Bass
- United States marshals -- Indian Territory -- Biography
- United States marshals -- Oklahoma -- Biography
- African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Biography
- African American police -- Oklahoma -- Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Indian Territory
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
- Indian Territory -- Biography
- Oklahoma -- Biography
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Main Library | Biography | New | REEVES, B. B974 | Available | 33111011229925 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Originally published: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.