When those old gunfighters are sittin’ around up there in Valhalla discussing who was the best of em all the name Bass Reeves is sure to be among the top picks. U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves was born into slavery but ran away and headed north to the Indian Territory where lived with the Creek and Seminole becoming fluent in all the languages of the Five Civilized Tribes. Reeves worked in the Indian Territory for thirty-two years. He’s been called the “greatest U.S. Marshal in the history
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