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Adapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves, directed by Taylor Sheridan and starring David Oyelowo Winner of the 2024 International Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society Book Award Finalist for the 2022 Oklahoma Book Award  Finalist for the 2021 National Indie Excellence Award  Finalist for the 2021 Best Book Award from American Book Fest  Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career. Famous for being a crack shot as well as for his nonviolent tendencies, Reeves uses his African American race to his strategic advantage. Along with a tramp or cowboy disguise, Reeves appears so nonthreatening that he often positions himself close enough to the outlaws he is pursuing to arrest them without bloodshed. After a series of heroic feats of capturing and killing infamous outlaws-most notably Jim Webb-and an introduction to Belle Starr, Reeves finds himself in the Fort Smith jail, charged with murder. This second book in the Bass Reeves Trilogy investigates what really happened when Reeves made the greatest mistake of his life on the heels of his greatest achievements.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Note on Language Part 1. Before 1. The Coldirons Part 2. During 2. Tick Tick 3. Tamales 4. Twelve 5. Scrambled Eggs and Brains and Ripe Cantaloupe 6. The Dead Line 7. There Were Cattle 8. Webb Again 9. High Horse 10. Somewhere at Sea 11. Tock Tock 12. A Deeper Darkness Part 3. After 13. A Wake 14. A Tail 15. A Hole 16. The Blackness 17. A Case Acknowledgments

About the Author :
Sidney Thompson teaches creative writing and African American literature at Texas Christian University. He is the author of Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One (Bison Books, 2020), You/Wee: Poems from a Father, and Sideshow: Stories, winner of Foreword Magazine’s Silver Award for Short Story Collection of the Year.

Review :
"If you've read and enjoyed Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, you won't want to miss Hell on the Border. And if you haven't read them yet, this is a good time to start. Thompson . . . writes with a folksy feel, as if the story is being told by one of the people of the day, perhaps by the light of a campfire as cicadas sing from surrounding trees and a horse nickers nearby."-Glen Seeber, The Oklahoman "Western action and justice certainly figure in Hell on the Border, but they are relayed here with a nuanced lyricism, more Larry McMurtry than dime novel. . . . Bass Reeves, as Thompson portrays him, is a complex, compelling character, a fully evolved hero."-Michael Ray Taylor, Chapter16.org “Gripping, hard-to-put-down.”-Sean Clancy, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette “A finely calibrated trilogy about a subject who couldn’t be more necessary to our moment. The voice with which Thompson pursues Bass Reeves, at once austere and ornamented by its historical circumstances, is just one of the book’s many enviable achievements.”-Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead “Hell on the Border imaginatively reclaims the life of pioneering African American U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. . . . This may be a book set in the historical past, but it contains stories and lessons we should contemplate today.”-W. Ralph Eubanks, author of The House at the End of the Road “In Sidney Thompson’s hands, this story of a remarkable life shows us that Oklahoma was always Indigenous land, Black lives have always mattered, and the white supremacy that seeks to squash Black brilliance still must be destroyed. With masterful structure, pacing, and language, this historical fiction reveals the truth of our present moment. . . . If you finished the first book desperate to see Bass Reeves free, in this book you will watch him become legendary, and you’ll end this novel dying to know what happens next.”-Erin Stalcup, author of Every Living Species


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781496225399
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Series Title: The Bass Reeves Trilogy
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1496225392
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2021
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Sub Title: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Two


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