No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval without permission in writing from the author. The suffering of people during this era will enlighten readers and draw them into what life must have been like in the old west. History buffs will love this book and the voice Gaiter gives Rufus Buck. This brings thought to the complexities of human nature. Gaiter introduces various historical outlaws and Darwin's the Origin of Species. This streak of terror lasts 13 days before he and his ruthless gang are captured and hung. Rufus Buck creates havoc and devastation in the realm of the white man. Unfortunately, this mixed breed gang stands alone. Government and most were paid a mere $265.70.During the summer of 1895 the Rufus Buck Gang heads out to win back the lands by taunting the Indian Nation to rise up and take back what is theirs. Their land was being taken over by the U.S. The late 1890's were a difficult time for Native Americans. Many longed to take from others leaving behind a trail of broken dreams and a crime filled legacy. This proved to be difficult since large portions of Indian land housed criminals, murders, rapists and other notorious bandits not unlike the Rufus Buck Gang. Parker, a mixed breed himself, attempts to maintain the law. During the rein of hanging judge Isaac C. The crowd exploded.Gaiter brings life back into the old west and how things really were. They had been terrorized – made to question their rights as men - by children. These were boys, none of them out of his teens. These were not the hardened men, the dime novel villains they all expected. With the prisoners bound, the tables were turned and the Buck Gang were their victims now.Then they saw the young faces. Spittle flew and dripped on chins with each more violent oath. Faces instantly deformed with rage and hatred. With the sight of that constraining metal their courage exploded. Economic challenges in the old west are reminiscent of today.The opening pages of this wonderful novel show a crowd of frightened people scarred by prejudice and ready to kill those they are terrified by:As the wagon neared, the crowd saw the shackles. There cause is not much different than our youth of today. This old west incorporates a young gang of teens who are a mixed breed, some black and Creek Indian. But not the old west we are used to reading about. Have we asked ourselves what is their motivation? Do we really know why they dress and act the way they do? Perhaps there is an underlying method to their madness that is inspired by this generation that we can't see, or chose not to see.Gaiter brings to life a historical novel of the old west. Today when we think of gangs our thoughts are of young punk kids who just don't want to work or go to school so they can get a job and join the ranks of the working class. In "I Dreamt I Was in Heaven," famous, historical figures dance with fictional characters to create a turn-of-the-century tapestry of violence and innocence, love and betrayal, butchery and grace-mirroring and chafing against the backdrop of a burgeoning United States, and a disappearing American West. With his angel to guide him, he sets out to do the impossible with a missionary's zeal, a child's anticipation, and a grown man's violence. Rufus is guided by a sense of religious mission, by heavenly visions made manifest in the form of the extraordinary, 13 year-old Theodosia Swain. Against this background, the teenaged Rufus Buck Gang embarked on their mad quest to reclaim Indian lands from US settlement. Parker's judicial tyranny over 74,000 square miles of Indian Territory was coming to an end. government continued to co-opt Indian land for settlement. In lawless Indian Territory the end of an era approached. Parker, notorious half-black, half-Indian outlaw Cherokee Bill, one-quarter Cherokee "gentlemen bandit" Henry Starr, relative of the notorious Belle Starr, and the worst of them all, half-black, half-Indian Rufus Buck, collided during the summer of 1895. Based on the true story, this is a tale of how real-life figures "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Their goal was to take back Indian lands. In the waning days of Indian Territory, the multi-racial, teenaged Rufus Buck Gang embarked on a vicious, childish, and deadly 13-day rampage that shocked even this lawless place.
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