TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paulsen,Gary
TI  - The legend of Bass Reeves: being the true and fictional account of the most valiant marshal in the West 
SN  - 9780385746618 (alk. paper)
AV  - PZ7.P2843 Lb 2006
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Wendy Lamb Books
KW  - Reeves, Bass
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Slaves
KW  - United States marshals
KW  - Oklahoma
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Texas
N2  - 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
ER  -