Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal

Resource Information

The work Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal

Title remainder

the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal

Statement of responsibility

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ; illustrations by R. Gregory Christie

Creator

• Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux

Contributor

• OverDrive, Inc
• Christie, R. Gregory, 1971-

Illustrator

• Christie, R. Gregory, 1971-

Subject

• African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Biography
• African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Electronic books
• Freedmen
• Freedmen -- Oklahoma -- Biography
• Freedmen -- Oklahoma -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile literature
• African Americans
• Indian Territory -- Biography
• Indian Territory -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Oklahoma
• Oklahoma -- Biography
• Oklahoma -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Oklahoma -- Indian Territory
• Outlaws
• Outlaws -- Indian Territory -- History
• Outlaws -- Indian Territory -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Outlaws -- Oklahoma -- History
• Outlaws -- Oklahoma -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Picture books
• Picture books for children
• Reeves, Bass
• Reeves, Bass
• Reeves, Bass
• Reeves, Bass -- Juvenile literature
• United States marshals
• United States marshals -- Indian Territory -- Biography
• United States marshals -- Indian Territory -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• United States marshals -- Oklahoma -- Biography
• United States marshals -- Oklahoma -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• History

Genre

• History
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Picture books
• Biography
• Picture books for children
• Electronic books
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

• Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding citizens respected him. Bass always got his man, dead or alive. He achieved all this in spite of whites who didn't like the notion of a black lawman. The true story of former slave Bass Reeves, is the story of a remarkable African American hero of the Old West
• This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma

Member of

• Coretta Scott King Award: 2010 author

Awards note

• A Junior Library Guild selection
• Coretta Scott King Award, author, 2010.
• ALA Notable book, 2010.
• Carter G. Woodson Honor Book, 2010
• Golden Kite Honor, 2010
• Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

363.28/2/092

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Ages 8-12

Interest level

• MG
• 3-5
• MG

LC call number

F697.R44

LC item number

N45 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

B Reeves Nel

Reading level

• 5.2
• 5.6.
• 5.6
• 5.2

Series statement

Coretta Scott King Award: 2010 author

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
• Reading Counts!
• Reading Counts RC
• Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

juvenile