THE LEGEND OF BASS REEVES: BEING THE TRUE AND FICTIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE MOST VALIANT MARSHAL IN THE WEST by Gary Paulsen

After just reading the title of this book, don't you just LOVE Gary Paulsen! "True and Fictional" you have got to love that!
This book has some of my favorite things: a cowboy, a hero, a true example of the American Dream, a person making tough decisions trying to do right when no one is really sure what right is, and Gary Paulsen! I want to research more about Bass Reeves, but Paulsen makes it clear what he thinks of the man. vii-xii This book is told in three stages. Most all our lives, if we live long enough, are in stages. One day I would like to talk to Gary Paulsen and ask him about what he says on xiii, " his boyhood is the longest because to em it was the most important part of his life, the fire that forged him, "Does he feel that way about all of us?"