- 232 pages
- English
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About This Book
Books 1 & 2 of the Bass Reeves Trilogy adapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Historical Fiction
National Indie Excellence Award Winner in Western Fiction All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defining hubris, but few rise from the ashes to achieve greater heights. In 1884 Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was arrested for murder and placed among his own prisoners in Hell on the Border, the infamous federal jail in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It was the single greatest setback of his illustrious career, but it wouldn't be his last mistake or trial by fire. In The Forsaken and the Dead we meet Reeves again. In the 1890s, past his prime, Reeves proceeds through the valleys and shadows of Indian and Oklahoma Territories. Despite his caution and innovations as a lawman and detective, his nation no longer seems a product of his own makingâso much like his children and his marriage to Jennie. While a modern world implodes around him and demons from his past continue to haunt his present, he remains resolute in his faith that he can be a steady rider on a pale horse.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Language
- Part 1
- 1. Thatch
- 2. Keokuk Falls
- 3. Before, During, and After
- 4. The Kickapoos
- Part 2
- 5. Living God
- 6. Home
- 7. Geronimo
- 8. The Court of the Damned
- 9. A New Moon
- 10. Pauls Valley
- 11. A Devil
- 12. Smoke
- 13. The Washout
- 14. Snuff
- 15. Hello
- Part 3
- 16. The Treeing Walker-Mountain Cur
- Part 4
- 17. The Beat, the Bag, and the BoyâSo Bright
- Acknowledgments
- About Sidney Thompson