This literary/historical novel details the life of African-American Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves between the years 1838-1862 and 1883-1884. One plotline depicts Reeves’s youth as a slave, including his service as a body servant to a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War. Another plotline depicts him years later, after Emancipation, at the height of his deputy career, when he has become the most feared, most successful lawman in Indian Territory, the largest federal jurisdiction in American history and the most dangerous part of the Old West. A preface explores the uniqueness of this project’s historical relevance and literary positioning as a neo-slave narrative, and addresses a few liberties that I take with the historical record.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc804965 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Thompson, Sidney, 1965- |
| Contributors | Penkov, Miroslav, Amine, Laila, Rodman, Barbara Ann |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 357 pages, Text |
| Coverage | United States, {1838..1862,1883..1884} |
| Rights | Public, Thompson, Sidney, 1965-, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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