Black Gun, Silver Star : The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

from jimocracy

As a huge fan of the Lone Ranger TV series (I watched the reruns as a boy), imagine my surprise to discover that the character was based on the life of Bass Reeves; a runaway slave who worked for the hanging judge. This book was written more as a historical fiction than a biography and I really e...

from marshapetry

excellent book! excellent narrator. Not so much a biography but rather a history of Bass done by looking at newspaper clippings, editorials etc... Author doesn't try to make up stuff to fill in the gaps, he just tells the story as it appears from clippings at the time. Author quotes lots of newsp...

from gothamajp

Easily the most deeply researched and detailed account of US Marshal Bass Reeves, arguably the greatest Western lawman that most people have never heard of. Unfortunately it is just a slog to get through. With little documentation about Reeves himself Burton presents a chronological account of ...

from jimocracy

As a huge fan of the Lone Ranger TV series (I watched the reruns as a boy), imagine my surprise to discover that the character was based on the life of Bass Reeves; a runaway slave who worked for the hanging judge. This book was written more as a historical fiction than a biography and I really e...

from marshapetry

excellent book! excellent narrator. Not so much a biography but rather a history of Bass done by looking at newspaper clippings, editorials etc... Author doesn't try to make up stuff to fill in the gaps, he just tells the story as it appears from clippings at the time. Author quotes lots of newsp...