Hell on the Border

ebook The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Two · Bass Reeves Trilogy

By Sidney Thompson

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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.
Hell on the Border