Bad news for outlaws [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal / Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ; illustrations by R. Gregory Christie.
Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding citizens respected him. Bass always got his man, dead or alive. He achieved all this in spite of whites who didn't like the notion of a black lawman. The true story of former slave Bass Reeves, is the story of a remarkable African American hero of the Old West.
Note
Includes timeline, list of western vocabulary words, and articles on Judge Isaac C. Parker and the Indian territory that gained statehood as Oklahoma.
Awards
A Junior Library Guild selection
Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2010.
ALA Notable book, 2010.
Carter G. Woodson Honor Book, 2010
Golden Kite Honor, 2010
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.
This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.