The legend of Bass Reeves :
Paulsen, Gary.
The legend of Bass Reeves : being the true and fictional account of the most valiant marshal in the West / Gary Paulsen. - 1st ed. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006. - 137 p. ; 22 cm.
Drawing on newspaper accounts and his own fertile imagination, Paulsen tells Reeves's story. Brief sections give the known facts of this hero's life, set in historical context, and longer, narrative sections (the longest being about his boyhood) fill out the details. The result is a compelling tale of the runaway slave who lived as a fugitive among the Creek Indians for 22 years, until the Emancipation Proclamation freed him to become a cattle rancher in Arkansas and, finally, a federal marshal appointed to help bring order to the Indian Territory. Bring order he did, with thousands of arrests and 14 gunfights to his credit.
9780385746618 (alk. paper) 9780385908986 (alk. paper) 038574661X 0385908989
2006011492
Reeves, Bass--Juvenile fiction.
Reeves, Bass--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Slaves--Fiction.
United States marshals--Fiction.
Oklahoma--History--19th century--Fiction.
Texas--History--19th century--Fiction.
PZ7.P2843 / Lb 2006
[Fic]
The legend of Bass Reeves : being the true and fictional account of the most valiant marshal in the West / Gary Paulsen. - 1st ed. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006. - 137 p. ; 22 cm.
Drawing on newspaper accounts and his own fertile imagination, Paulsen tells Reeves's story. Brief sections give the known facts of this hero's life, set in historical context, and longer, narrative sections (the longest being about his boyhood) fill out the details. The result is a compelling tale of the runaway slave who lived as a fugitive among the Creek Indians for 22 years, until the Emancipation Proclamation freed him to become a cattle rancher in Arkansas and, finally, a federal marshal appointed to help bring order to the Indian Territory. Bring order he did, with thousands of arrests and 14 gunfights to his credit.
9780385746618 (alk. paper) 9780385908986 (alk. paper) 038574661X 0385908989
2006011492
Reeves, Bass--Juvenile fiction.
Reeves, Bass--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Slaves--Fiction.
United States marshals--Fiction.
Oklahoma--History--19th century--Fiction.
Texas--History--19th century--Fiction.
PZ7.P2843 / Lb 2006
[Fic]