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500 Miles to Nowhere

The Legend of Bass Reeves

Fred Eason

Copyright © 2012 Fred Eason

This work is fiction.

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2012-04-24

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to my father, Eben Obey Eason, who tried, without success, throughout his life to publish a novel.

Acknowledgements

This work was inspired by conversations with Bennie Westphal, who is a descendent of William P. Pittcock, depicted in this book, as well as the Westphal side of the family who were mainly railroad engineers. Bennie was most directly responsible for securing Fort Smith as the site for the new U. S. Marshal’s Museum and first told me about Bass Reeves. I had never heard of Bass Reeves, but Bennie inspired me to research the subject through the several historical books that have been written about him, as stated in the introduction of this book.

I would also like to thank the team at FastPencil who helped to create this book: Mariena Foley was my project manager. Marian Jane Sanders edited this and my previous book and Matt O’Leary created two outstanding book covers for this and my previous book.

I would like to thank my son, Robert Eason, who also spent a lot of time editing and making suggestions to make the book more interesting.