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Overview: Sidney Thompson is an American author, academic, and writing consultant. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and received his education from the University of Memphis, University of Arkansas, and University of North Texas. Thompson is known for his works including ‘Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves’, ‘Sideshow: Stories’, and ‘You/Wee: Poems from a Father’. He teaches creative writing and African-American literature at Texas Christian University.
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The Bass Reeves Trilogy by Sidney Thompson is a series of historical novels that tell the story of Bass Reeves, a legendary lawman and one of the first African American Deputy U.S. Marshals in the Wild West. The series includes "Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves," "Hell on the Border," and "The Forsaken and the Dead." These books cover Reeves’ life from his time as a slave to his career as a deputy U.S. marshal, focusing on his early career in the first book. The trilogy has been adapted for the Paramount+ miniseries "Bass Reeves."
Genre: Audiobooks > Fiction
Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, 1 | 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 US 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.
Hell on the Border, 2 | Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy US 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.
The Forsaken and the Dead, 3 | All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defining hubris, but few rise from the ashes to achieve greater heights. In 1884 Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves was arrested for murder and placed among his own prisoners in Hell on the Border, the infamous federal jail in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It was the single greatest setback of his illustrious career, but it wouldn’t be his last mistake or trial by fire.
In The Forsaken and the Dead we meet Reeves again. In the 1890s, past his prime, Reeves proceeds through the valleys and shadows of Indian and Oklahoma Territories. Despite his caution and innovations as a lawman and detective, his nation no longer seems a product of his own making—so much like his children and his marriage to Jennie. While a modern world implodes around him and demons from his past continue to haunt his present, he remains resolute in his faith that he can be a steady rider on a pale horse.
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