Download Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves: Race and Ethnicity in the American West Series #1 AudioBook Free
Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves appears as you of "eight distinctive Oklahomans", the "most feared US marshal in the Indian country". That Reeves was also an BLACK who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas makes his accomplishments even more remarkable. Bucking the odds ("I am sorry, we didn't keep black people's record," a clerk at one of Oklahoma's local historical societies replied a query), Artwork T. Burton sifts through fact and legend to discover the reality about one of the very most outstanding peace officials in past due 19th-century America - and perhaps the best lawman of the Wild West time. Fluent in Creek and other Southern local languages, in physical form powerful, skilled with firearms, and a expert of disguise, Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws, and his exploits were renowned in Oklahoma and Arkansas. A finalist for the 2007 Spur Award, sponsored by the Traditional western Writers of America, Black colored Gun, Silver Legend instructs Bass Reeves' report for the very first time and restores this remarkable figure to his rightful put in place the annals of the North american West.
