Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.
Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

An open book

Recommended Reading

Description
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
Seldon Lindsey book
  • Title: Seldon 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's 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

 

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's 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: Amerikan 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: Seldon 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's 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:  Authorhouse, 2021

 

 

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