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Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves
by Sidney Thompson
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Lincoln, NE: Bison Books (March 2020)
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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.
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.
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