Art T. Burton

Black Gun, Silver Star

The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Reevesâ s presence in contemporary national media and in popular modern media.

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Produktdetails

• Race and Ethnicity in the American West
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• New Edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 153mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781496233424
• ISBN-10: 1496233425
• Artikelnr.: 63432252

Autorenporträt

Art T. Burton is a retired professor of history at South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois. He is the author of Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier and Black, Red, and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870–1907.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: Uncovering the History of Black Deputy U.S. Marshals 
1. The Lone Ranger and Other Stories 
2. Arkansas Son 
3. Van Buren and Fort Smith 
4. On the Trail 
5. “No Sunday West of St. Louis, No God West of Fort Smith” 
6. Gunman’s Territory
7. Hell on the Border 
8. Trial of the Century 
9. Back on the Trail 
10. TheWinds of Change 
11. Land of the Six-Shooter 
12. Paris, Texas 
13. Northern District, Indian Territory 
14. Muskogee Marshal 
15. A New Century 
16. Devotion to Duty 
17. The Invincible Marshal 
18. A Lawman to the End 
Epilogue 
Appendix 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index