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Old West/American Frontier
Black Gun, Silver Star book
  • Title: Black Gun, Silver Star
  • Subject: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
  • Author: Art T. Burton
  • Published: University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Desert Lawmen book
  • Title: Desert Lawmen
  • Subject: The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona
  • Author: Larry D. Ball
  • Published: 1992 by the University of New Mexico Press
Down Darkness Wide book
  • Title: Down Darkness Wide
  • Subject: U.S. Marshals and the last frontier (Alaska)
  • Author: James Chenoweth
  • Published: Publish America, 2004
Law West of Fort Smith book
  • Title: Law West of Fort Smith
  • Subject: A History of Frontier Justice in the Indian Territory, 1834-1896
  • Author: Glenn Shirley
  • Published: First Bison Book Printing, July, 1968
Marshal, The Story of the U.S. Marshals Service book
  • Title: Marshal: The Story of the U.S. Marshals Service
  • Subject: Here is the real story of true grit and daring deeds
  • Author: Norm Goldstein
  • Published: 1991
Selden Lindsey book
  • Title: Selden Lindsey
  • Subject: A True Story of the Old West
  • Author: Harrell McCullough
  • Published: Paragon Publishing, 1990
Ted McRoberts, North Country Marshal book
  • Title: Ted McRoberts: North Country Marshal
  • Subject: The Life of North Country Marshal Ted McRoberts in Alaska
  • Author: Gene Medaris
  • Published: Great Northwest Publishing and Distributing Co., Inc., 1986
They Called Him Wild Bill book
  • Title: They Called Him Wild Bill
  • Subject: The Life and Adventure of James Butler Hickok
  • Author: Joseph G. Rosa
  • Published: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1964
Western Lawmen book
  • Title: Western Lawmen
  • Subject: U.S. Marshals and their Deputies, 1850-1920
  • Author: Compiled by Mollie Stehno and Written and Edited by Jim Fulbright
  • Published: Mid-South Publications, 2015
Fugitive Apprehension
Flight of the Falcon book
  • Title: The Flight of the Falcon
  • Subject: The true story of the escape and manhunt for Christopher Boyce, America's most wanted spy
  • Author: Robert Lindsay
  • Published: 1983 by Sandbob, Inc.
Civil Rights Period
Photo of An Eyewitness Story of the Civil Rights Movement book
  • Title: An Eyewitness Story of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Subject: Firsthand accounts of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Author: Sanford Wexler
  • Published: Checkmark Books, 1993
Differing Opinions book
  • Title: Differing Opinions
  • Subject: Memories of a United States Marshal
  • Author: Charles E. Burrows
  • Published: 1998
Eyes on the Prize, America Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 book
  • Title: Eyes on the Prize, America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
  • Subject: A history of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1965
  • Author: Juan Williams
  • Published: Blackside, Inc., 1987
Parting the Waters book
  • Title: Parting the Waters
  • Subject: America in the King Years 1954-63
  • Author: Taylor Branch
  • Published: Simon and Schuster, 1988

An American Insurrection-The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962

  • Title: An American Insurrection-The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
  • Subject: Civil Rights
  • Author: William Doyle
  • Published: Doubleday, 2001
Official History of the United States Marshals Service
Badges of the United States Marshals book
  • Title: Badges of the United States Marshals
  • Subject: History and gallery of United States Marshals Service badges
  • Author: Raymond Sherrard and George Stumpf
  • Published: RHS Enterprises, 1991
Forging the Star book
  • Title: Forging the Star
  • Subject: The Official Modern History of the United States Marshals Service
  • Author: David S. Turk
  • Published: University of North Texas Press, 2016
Lawmen book
  • Title: The Lawmen
  • Subject: United States Marshals and their Deputies, 1789-1989
  • Author: Frederick S. Calhoun
  • Published: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989
Children's Books
George Washington Revolutionary Marshal book
  • Title: George Washington's Revolutionary Marshals
  • Subject: Children's Book on the beginnings of the U.S. Marshals Service
  • Author: Rae Ann Victor
  • Published: Infinity Publishing, 2004
Photo of My Brother J-Boy book
  • Title: My Brother J-Boy
  • Subject: Children's Book on the life of James Meredith
  • Author: Hazel Janell Meredith (a.k.a. Hilda Hall)
  • Published: American Press, 2008
U.S. Marshals Service, Catching Fugitives book
  • Title: The U.S. Marshals Service, Catching Fugitives
  • Subject: Children's book on catching fugitives
  • Author: Connie Colwell Miller
  • Published: 2008 by Capstone Press
Memoirs
Chasing Bandits book
  • Title: Chasing Bandits
  • Subject: Ten Stories of Bad Guys and the Good Guys Who Catch Them
  • Author: Luke J. Adler
  • Published: Published in the United States, 2014
One Marshals badge
  • Title: One Marshals Badge
  • Subject: A Memoir of Fugitive Hunting, Witness Protection, and the U.S. Marshals Service
  • Author: Louie McKinney with Pat Russo
  • Published: Potomac Books, Inc., 2009
Quest for Justice book
  • Title: Quest for Justice
  • Subject: From Deputy Sheriff to Federal Judge
  • Author: Henry E. Hudson
  • Published: Loft Press, Incorporated, September 2007
Seldon Lindsey book
  • Title: Selden Lindsey
  • Subject: A True Story of the Old West
  • Author: Harrell McCullough
  • Published: Paragon Publishing, 1990
Ted McRoberts, North Country Marshal book
  • Title: Ted McRoberts: North Country Marshal
  • Subject: The Life of North Country Marshal Ted McRoberts in Alaska
  • Author: Gene Medaris
  • Published: Great Northwest Publishing and Distributing Co., Inc., 1986
U.S. Marshals, Inside America Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency book
  • Title: U.S. Marshals: Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency
  • Subject: Tells the thrilling inside story of today’s U.S. Marshals in their own words
  • Author: Mike Earp and David Fisher
  • Published: Harper Collins Publishers, 2014
Chasing Evil book cover
  • Title: Chasing Evil: Pursuing Dangerous Criminals with the U.S. Marshals
  • Subject: Modern Memoir, 1980s-2010s, D.C. Sniper Case Analysis
  • Author: William J. Sorukas, Jr.
  • Published: Author house, 2021

Apprehended: Riding Shotgun with U.S. Marshals in the Mid-90s

  • Title: Apprehended: Riding Shotgun with U.S. Marshals in the Mid-90s      
  • Subject: Memoirs, Case History
  • Author: William Bonk
  • Published: Pantacle [Publishing] LLC, 2022

In Death's Shadow

  • Title: In Death's Shadow
  • Subject: Memoirs, 1970s through 2000s, Case History
  • Author: David M. Branham and Robert C. Leschorn
  • Published: 2023

Lucky Thirteen: Memoir of One of the First Female Deputy Marshals

  • Title: Lucky Thirteen: Memoir of One of the First Female Deputy Marshals
  • Subject: Memoirs, 1970s and 1980s, Case History
  • Author: Iris Hattersley
  • Published: [Independent], 2022

Non-Disclosure

  • Title: Non-Disclosure
  • Subject: Memoir, Witness Protection Program
  • Author: George Dapra
  • Published: Outskirts Press, 2017
General History
Badges of Law and Order book
  • Title: Badges of Law and Order
  • Subject: Brief histories of metropolitan police forces across the country
  • Author: George E. Virgines
  • Published: Cochran Publishing Company, 1987
Deadly Affrays book
  • Title: Deadly Affrays
  • Subject: Violent Deaths of the United States Marshals Service, 1789-2004
  • Author: Robert Ernst with George Stumpf
  • Published: Scarlet Mask Enterprises, 2006
Hunter and Howlers book
  • Title: Hunter and Howlers
  • Subject: Threats and Violence against Federal Judicial Officials in the United States, 1789-1993
  • Author: Frederick S. Calhoun
  • Published: United States Marshals Service, 1998
Origins of the Federal Judiciary book
  • Title: Origins of the Federal Judiciary
  • Subject: Essays on the Judiciary Act of 1789
  • Author: Maeva Marcus
  • Published: Oxford University Press, 1992
Magazines
  • Title: The Federal Lawyer: A Brief Primer on the History of the U.S. Marshals Service
  • Subject: Brief History of the United States Marshals Service
  • Author: David S. Turk
  • Published: August 2008