848:: "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (October 2021)" It may look only like self-promotion, but my books are historically relevant. I am writing about history that has been whitewashed. I am trying to change that with my work. It's the history I value more than my books. I make so little on them, given my time, labor, and expense, that profit is a moot and laughable point. More important is no one has written more books on
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anyone else which figures and events in history I write about. If that is an error on my part, it's an innocent error. I am a legitimate academic with award-winning books about a plethora of historical subjects. If you don't want me to link my book to them or even to Bass Reeves, I don't know what to say but ok, I won't, but some exception to the rule of self-promotion should be reasonable in some cases. In this case. Please reconsider.
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