Sidney Thompson

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves (eBook, ePUB)

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy U.S. marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave. After a childhood picking cotton, he became an expert marksman under his master's tutelage, winning shooting contests throughout the region. His skill had serious implications, however, as the Civil War broke out. Reeves was given to his master's mercurial, sadistic, Moby-Dick-quoting son in the hopes that Reeves would keep him safe in battle. The ensuing humiliation, love, heroics, war, mind games, and fear solidified Reeves's determination to gain his freedom and drew him one step further on his fated path to an illustrious career.Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an important historical work that places Reeves in the pantheon of American heroes and a thrilling historical novel that narrates a great man's exploits amid the near-mythic world of the nineteenth-century frontier.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UNP - Bison Books
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496220189
• Artikelnr.: 59618632

Autorenporträt

Sidney Thompson teaches creative writing and African American literature at Texas Christian University. He is the author of You/Wee: Poems from a Father and Sideshow: Stories. Thompson has published his short fiction in numerous literary journals and anthologies.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Language
Part 1. Genesis
1. Bass Reeves    
2. Shoo    
3. Peas in a Pod    
4. Ice         
5. Books    
6. The Pussytoes    
7. The Wallows    
8. Friends    
Part 2. Exodus
9. The Sticks    
10. A Good One    
11. A Sire Mule    
12. The Bottle    
13. Rub    
14. Cracker King    
15. Crumbs and Raindrops    
Part 3. That Heaven Place
16. The Seed    
17. What a N—— Wants    
18. A Revelation    
19. The Quiet Places    
20. Walpurgisnacht    
21. Now That There’s Space    
22. Closer    
23. A Little Red Church    
24. Left    
25. Thataway    
Acknowledgments