![]() ![]() His slave-keeper brought him along as another personal servant when he went off to fight with the Confederate Army, during the Civil War. Arthur Burton released an overview of the man’s life a few years ago. Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves recounts that Reeves was born into a life of slavery in 1838. Marshal, won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award for best author. Vaunda Michaux Nelson’s book, Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. ![]() While historians have largely overlooked Reeves, there have been a few notable works on him. Historians of the American West have also, until recently, ignored the fact that this man was African American, a free black man who headed West to find himself less subject to the racist structure of the established Eastern and Southern states. The basics remained the same: a lawman hunting bad guys, accompanied by a Native American, riding on a white horse, and with a silver trademark. Perhaps not surprisingly, many aspects of his life were written out of the story, including his ethnicity. The real “Lone Ranger,” it turns out, was an African American man named Bass Reeves, who the legend was based upon. ![]()
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