Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1496233425 ISBN13: 9781496233424 Release Date: September 2022 Publisher: Bison Books Length: 416 Pages Weight: 1.30 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9" 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,