While watching Encore Westerns, I saw Bob Boze Bell’s True West Moments on Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. Who was this lawman?
Otto Rueger
Tucson, Arizona
Bass Reeves has been called one of the greatest deputy U.S. marshals in the history of the West.
Born a slave in Arkansas in 1838, Reeves was later taken to Texas. He ran away and headed north to the Indian Territory where he lived for a spell with the Creek and Seminole. He could converse well in all the languages of the Five C
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