| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves. By Art T. Burton. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xix + 346 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95; £18.95.)

Historian Art Burton separates myth from reality in researching Bass Reeves, an iconic figure in the African American West. The reader is given as complete an account of Reeves's life as can be found anywhere. While Reeves is familiar to some, many western scholars have little or no knowledge of him. Burton is grounded in the frontier experience as evidenced by earlier books and an abiding interest in outlaws and lawmen. Black Gun, Silver Star is more than a biography; it is a preface to the history of Indian and Oklahoma Territories, early law enforcement, and judicial proceedings.

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