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Black gun, silver star : the life and legend of frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

Black gun, silver star : the life and legend of frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

Burton, Arthur T., author.
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In this new edition of the biography of Bass Reeves, who was formerly enslaved and then served as a peace officer in and around late nineteenth-century Indian Territory, Art Burton traces Reeves's presence in contemporary national media and in popular modern media.

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ISBN:
9781496233424
9780803217478
Description:
xix, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover and title page
Originally published: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index
Control Number:
3239770
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