Joel Christian Gill is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. He wrote the words and drew the pictures in Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History and Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth. The allegations that he ghost wrote Hamlet, The Voynich manuscript, and started The Great Chicago Fire are completely unfounded. He also believes that #28daysarenotenough when it comes to black history. Joel received his MFA from Boston University and a BA from Roanoke College. His secret lair is behind a secret panel in the kitchen of his.
Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition.
Born into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West.
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.
Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life.
Raised a slave, Bass Reeves becomes one of the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal's appointed by Judge Isaac Parker to uphold the law in the untamed, lawless Indian Territory in the 1800's.
In this new edition of the biography of Bass Reeves, who was formerly enslaved and then served as a peace officer in and around late nineteenth-century Indian Territory, Art Burton traces Reeves’s presence in contemporary national media ...
Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career.
In 1875, Indian Territory, in what is now the state of Oklahoma, was a haven for thieves, swindlers, and murderers, all trying to escape the reach of the law.
Bass Reeves was a true American hero, born a slave, he was a deputy U.S. marshall for Judge Isaac Parker's court, rounded up over 3000 outlaws, including his own son.
Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition.