Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshall by Judge Isaac Parker to bring law and order to the territory that was to become Oklahoma. Bass had a strong sense of right and wrong and would always try to capture a criminal without violence. He always got his man and his very name struck fear in outlaws, sometimes even causing them to give themselves up.
Born into slavery in 1838,...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"African American George Fletcher loved horses from an early age. When he unfairly lost the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up to a white man, the outraged audience declared him "people's champion."
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