Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves
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Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One

About this book

Adapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves, directed by Taylor Sheridan and starring David Oyelowo

2022 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist for Western Fiction
2021 Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award Finalist for Prose
2021 International Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society Book Award for Historical Fiction in Event/Era
2021 Oklahoma Book Award Finalist for Fiction from the Oklahoma Center for the Book
2021 Will Rogers Medallion Book Award Finalist for Western Fiction
2021 Spur Award Finalist for Historical Novel from the Western Writers of America
2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Historical Fiction (Pre 1900s)
2020 Arkansas Gem from the Arkansas Center for the Book
2021 Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best First Novel
2021 Indie Book Award Finalist for Historical Fiction

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, Reeves 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Note on Language
  10. Part 1. Genesis
  11. 1. Bass Reeves
  12. 2. Shoo
  13. 3. Peas in a Pod
  14. 4. Ice
  15. 5. Books
  16. 6. The Pussytoes
  17. 7. The Wallows
  18. 8. Friends
  19. Part 2. Exodus
  20. 9. The Sticks
  21. 10. A Good One
  22. 11. A Sire Mule
  23. 12. The Bottle
  24. 13. Rub
  25. 14. Cracker King
  26. 15. Crumbs and Raindrops
  27. Part 3. That Heaven Place
  28. 16. The Seed
  29. 17. What a N— Wants
  30. 18. A Revelation
  31. 19. The Quiet Places
  32. 20. Walpurgisnacht
  33. 21. Now That There’s Space
  34. 22. Closer
  35. 23. A Little Red Church
  36. 24. Left
  37. 25. Thataway
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. About Sidney Thompson