The Legend of Bass Reeves Quotes

“A land-hungry fledging government attempted to wipe out a people by allowing starvation and disease and hardship to go unchecked. It is frightening to contemplate what might have happened if the American government had possessed the technology for mass extermination of a culture.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West

“Follow the Drinking Gourd north and don’t stop until you hear a man call you Mister”
― Gary Paulsen, The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West

“So the United States stipulated a place (the phrase "concentration camp" comes easily to mind) where all the tribes should be forced to go. A wild area was selected that was completely unsettled, one that nobody else would conceivably want, so remote that the problem of what to do with the Five Civilized Tribes would be out sight, out of mind, and - one out suppose- out of conscience. They called it the Indian Territory.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West

“They could kill him, but they’d never own him again.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West