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In Search of the Real Bass Reeves

by | Apr 17, 2024 | Western Books & Movies, Western Movies

For a century, slave-turned-Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was legendary among history buffs, but with the general public, he couldn’t get arrested. That changed in 2006, when historian Art T. Burton published his biography of Reeves: Black Gun, Silver Star. Then came the deluge: Reeves was portrayed in over a dozen Westerns, sci-fi and superhero shows like Timeless, Wynonna Earp, Hell on the Border, Watchmen, The Harder They Fall, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Corsicana, and the one everyone h


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