As a retired Deputy US Marshal, I knew full well what a legend Bass Reeves was. Our agency has a rich and brave history. Very well done episode!

@joshuatraffanstedt2695

3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see some of the information your agency has! Someone needs to make this man FAMOUS FAMOUS. I'm surprised there hasn't been any serious effort in making a major motion picture about this man! Grew up a slave and went on to become one of the most badass lawmen there ever was! In a violent time in American history.

@Future_Imperfect

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 Well he is kinda famous, except they called him the lone ranger 😮‍💨

@annarehl9673

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 a

A real legend that nearly no one has heard of

My GG Grandfather was born 1851’ in Missouri and lived his life in Arkansas. His son my G Grandfather was born there too and lived in the Indian Nation around Atoka’ along the Arkansas line. My grandfather born 1900 in IT -told stories of his uncles. Tuff characters they were to live in that region🇺🇸 Another great historical series 👍thanks again!

Bass Reeves & Old Silver, I am so proud he was from my parts. I carry his spirit ❤🌟🇺🇲 He deserves a statue at a healing park. The park will be beautiful located in Muskogee Oklahoma. I am ambidextrous myself, was a riflery instructor at camp Takatoka one summer. Really good shot too. My ex took me out shooting only once. I think he felt intimidated. 😊 he was an officer too.

Imagine how honest the heart this man must have had to have gone from a slave to enforcing the law and still have justice in his core. Through all the injustice he experienced. Then to turn and be a man of justice. God bless him for that

Great work. I've watched everything you have produced both in this format and in the infamous America format in about a 3-day binge nonstop. I cannot comprehend the ratio between the number of views and the number of likes are lack thereof and lack of comments. I beseech you to persevere I have found all your work excellent at every point including the music and would be very very disappointed if we were to lose you thank you so much for your dedication to excellence

This is marvelous. Thank you. It’s a shame some of his history has been lost. Would add so much to the richness of this wonderful man.

One of the greatest law man of the old west, Bass Reeves and an indigenous American.

Great podcast. I love history and American history especially. I purchased the book " Red, Black and Deadly !!"" I love these stories.

Thanks for this, most interesting and looking forward so much to part two. This man has certainly gone down in American history as one of the very best lawmen, and also with the unenviable task of bringing law and order to a vast and unwelcoming area and population. The miles he must have covered probably mostly on horseback and some train journeys is amazing by todays standards of roads and cars, amazing lawman and hopefully more will come to light about the life of Bass Reeves.

❤ this, Thank you Respectfully

I am disgusted the way he was treated towards his end of his life by segregationists, he was a hero and deserved to be treated as such

Reeves also appears in the BBC adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. Portrayed by the British actor Gary Beadle, Reeves unexpectedly encounters Phileas Fogg and his travelling companions on board a stagecoach, and ends up drawing them into his fight to bring a criminal to justice.

The year is 2022, 22nd of January listening to the legendary law man Bass Reeves is. My name is Jose, born mexican raised texan, in all my younger years in school I not once heard this man's tale...it took having to watch videos like this (which by the way i am thankful for). It sadden me to have heard how his son ben murdered bass's wife, how Plessy v. Ferguson "seperate but equal" drove bass's career to a straight ignorant/racist end. HOW ON EARTH ARE THESE TALES NOT TOLD IN OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM?! What other legends are there to be told from americans of african/black/slave backgrounds. We all need to sit down at the table, have a straight forward honest talk about our mistakes as a nation. Can we not learn how to be lawfull and good to one another as bass reeves is. Black history, white history, indian history...not its all our history!

@Riqueee24

2 жыл бұрын

Salute to you bro ✊🏿✊🏽

@VideoClipsEntertainment

2 жыл бұрын

How u get over the border get out my country

@Riqueee24

2 жыл бұрын

@@VideoClipsEntertainment bro what are u talkin bout ? Lmaoo I’m Black and Native American I just got a Spanish name never asked my mom why but u shouldn’t be like that to ppl bro especially being a black man yourself knowing the type of shii we go through as a ppl don’t use what the white supremacists used against us against other ppl we better then that God bless you bruh👌🏽

As soon as I found your podcasts. I wondered about Bass Reeves, I came to the man via Art and Raylan talking about Bass Reeves in Justified. I know it’s just tv. But I’m cool with that. Love your style 🤘💚🖤🍀

This man is a legend

The Netflix movie " The Harder They Fall" brought me here!

Bass should be a national hero!

@cosmotraveler9346

3 жыл бұрын

Was any wild west sheriff ever declared a national hero?

@joshuatraffanstedt2695

3 жыл бұрын

Right. Instead we have Columbus day smh

@jamescullen2448

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry they made Gorge Floyd, the hero 🤔🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@uhurumbuntu2487

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescullen2448 Why would you even mention George Floyd? Bass Reeves and George Floyd aren't even in the same category. Is it bcuz they're both black? Are you trying to say we can only have one black hero? Yeah, you just showed your racist prejudice, thx for rearing your ugly head.

Courageous..brave..dang..intelligent

The photo used in the cover photo is not Bass Reeves.

Excellent! Looking forward to Ep.2

Absolute dawgggg

It’s upsetting to me that this man lies in an unmarked grave in Muskogee Oklahoma. Shameful. What a guy!

Ok, Bass was half brother of his Master, you can guess how. That's why he was treated half way well and trusted with firearms . If you want to truly know his life story read...Black Guns, Tin Star. Also the makers of Yellowstone and 1883 are doing a tv series on this great law man. Also yes, the Lone Ranger is based on him.

@LifeisANovel

9 ай бұрын

That's interesting. I'ma search that book

Such a quality podcast!

Keep the good work up boyz 👍🏻👌🏻

Loved it.

Cant wait

This is not Bass Reeves. Please stop passing this mistaken picture of him. This is a cabinet card from a private collection thought to be Bass Reeves that sold at auction for $12,000.

🔥🔥👌🏾👌🏾

I believe Bass Reeves appeared in the recent remake of around the world in 80 days in a shoot out that delays the group

They should make a major motion picture about him give Ryan Reeves one of his descendants some acting lessons and let him play the role that is when he's not playing hockey for the NHL

This was my favorite

There needs to be media depictions of Bass Reeves.

@SKaR64

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean? He's all over the place.

@omartistry

3 жыл бұрын

@@SKaR64 Movie and video games.

@SKaR64

3 жыл бұрын

@@omartistry There have been several Bass Reeves movies since 1994, but few people went to see them. Westerns are no longer very popular and not big money-makers for Hollywood.

@m.worthy

3 жыл бұрын

He is briefly depicted at the beginning of the HBO series 'WATCHMEN'. Delroy Lindo will also play Bass Reeves in the upcoming 'THE HARDER THEY FALL' (Netflix).

Great podcast! One thing though, Pea Ridge is in Northwest Arkansas, not Northeast. Again great podcast.

How many here bc of "1883"?

It's strange that they considered showing and teaching Bass Reeves how to become a marksman was far less dangerous than teaching him how to read.

@trollgod7565

Жыл бұрын

It is , if he would have learned how to read he may have been a judge , or a lawyer. I would rather know how to read than shoot a gun.

Got the makings of a whole TV series or at least a movie. Perhaps a model for the movie Hang Em High.

@dogfacedsoldier327

2 жыл бұрын

I believe his story is the model for the Lone Ranger.

I'm pretty sure If he was a U.S. Dupty Marshal I'm sure they have quite a bit of documentation

👍👍

#Rockstar

@u-sefwilliams8614

2 жыл бұрын

#rockstarreddead

As a Rangers and Dallas Stars fan ..Bass Reeves great great grandson Ryan is Right winger on Rangers.. Tough SOB

corsciana is a closer depiction while being accurate entertaining motion picture made by Isiah Washington independent film

Bullpenboss what district did you work from? I was in the Western District of Virginia.

I'm from cooke County just west of Grayson County!

As a Canadian I learned about Bass Reeves when I was a teenager ..I can't believe that he isn't mandatory study in your US school system .. I can only imagine that maybe race has to do with it?

@bigblockman11

2 жыл бұрын

Nah not race, a band of jerks that just can't stand the idea of strong, well mannered and smart black man living as an inspiration if you need another reason why read books from thomas sowell

@codejjm

2 жыл бұрын

That’s race lol

@bigblockman11

2 жыл бұрын

@@codejjm I suppose it does sounds like that but point is they don't want people to know him and understand how to really achieve the American dream, they wanted more victims so it can be used as voters

@deezonyxde77

2 жыл бұрын

Of course "Race" has something to do with it. It's white supremacy

@daygenhall6126

2 жыл бұрын

I mean there isn't a point in learning about him lol unless you're studying criminal justice or old west we don't really grow up learning in school about that

I still don’t get why they haven’t made like a huge movie about Reeves. Denzel is getting up there but he could still play him and there’s also plenty of other good black actors I could plan

@abdulseaforth6930

2 жыл бұрын

That would be acknowledgement of a black person having achieved.

@trollgod7565

Жыл бұрын

Not Denzel

And yet today Gorge Floyd, is a hero today, 🤔🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😤😤😤😤😤

Wasn't allowed to learn to read, but was taught how to shoot? Now that's the America, I know! 😆

That image is NOT Bass Reeves

This is a long, detailed, well-narrated and apparent attempt at a informative biography on U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves. My criticisms are that the first 35 years of Bass' life are mostly anecdotal, The Reeves/ Ranger Origin Story is hyperbole and that recently-discovered photograph of a slight Black lawman is not Bass Reeves. Hopefully, the remainder of this series will be better planned with less misinformation and exaggeration. There are plenty of inaccurate and souped up Bass Reeves videos on KZread.

@joshuatraffanstedt2695

3 жыл бұрын

That's the problem with information on people that have been dead for more than a century. Theres not exactly much new information coming out. Relax, this is fine. If you don't like the way folks deliver their content, feel free making a KZread video of your own.

@SKaR64

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 I don't think that is the problem with the numerous Bass Reeves Youttube videos. In my opinion, the problem is that there are so damn many of them and that most creators don't even try to make them original with new, interesting and factual content. I actually gave this one high marks for being a "long, detailed, well-narrated and informative" biography attempt, but you apparently ignored that part. You should take your own advice. "If you don't like the way folks deliver their" comments on content, "feel free making a KZread video of your own" on how people's opinions are wrong. There is new information on Bass Reeves. You just need to know where to look. Good day.

Bass could have claimed he was owed something. He could have whined about his circumstance --but he didn't. HE WORKED and made his own wat!!!

@LifeisANovel

9 ай бұрын

Go to sleep.

He was an American indian, and was NEVER A SLAVE, NOR BUTLER! ALWAYS FREE!

@joshuatraffanstedt2695

3 жыл бұрын

No, he wasn't. He was an African American..

@smbonner22

3 жыл бұрын

No he wasn't! He was born into slavery and was AA!!

@hollywood7775

3 жыл бұрын

They lied never a slave

@zacharygregory4925

2 жыл бұрын

He LITERALLY was. He was born into slavery in the Arkansas Territory in 1838 in Crawford County.

@linniem5982

7 ай бұрын

His family was enslaved to the Reeves family, so was Bass. He was assigned to aid George Reeves who was my great uncle.

Don’t learn him how to read but learn him how to shoot. I guess the pen really is mightier then the gun.

A hero in a Racist America. They always try to tell these stories where the racism is never a focal point. Where in reality...it always is.

@rivrat210

3 жыл бұрын

America is NOT a racist nation!

@jenj5152

3 жыл бұрын

Are you in denial, or are you in fact part of the problem?

@abdulseaforth6930

2 жыл бұрын

@@jenj5152 Don’t wast your time. The facts would knock people down and yet still, they would get up denying that very fact.

@valeriewilliams1103

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't even use Reeves' picture-- in reality!

@ProdByQuaDear

2 жыл бұрын

@@rivrat210 It was just built on racism lol

Certain people need to go back to grammar school.

Why do you feel this man has been over looked?

Marshall, not marshal. What is wrong with you!

@Rickm71

3 жыл бұрын

It has always been spelled with one "L."

@Nick-nc3hm

2 жыл бұрын

It’s one L genius. Not Marshall

Can we please begin to call the enslaved person exactly what they were and in stead of call their enslavers that not their masters