Black Gun, Silver Star

The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

Art T. Burton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2022 | New Edition
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3342-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2022
Reihe/Serie	Race and Ethnicity in the American West
Zusatzinfo	32 photographs, 2 maps, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-3342-5 / 1496233425
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3342-4 / 9781496233424
Zustand	Neuware