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Bass Reeves Finally Gets His Due

by | Apr 17, 2024 | Features & Gunfights

Who was Bass Reeves?   Historian Art Burton has spent much of his life on the trail of the elusive lawman’s life. Reeves’s life from slave to deputy U.S. marshal serving the Western District of Arkansas in the Indian and Oklahoma territories in the last decades of the 19th century is extraordi


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