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Timeline of a Hero by Wesley Murphy

Timeline of a Hero by Wesley Murphy. Bass Reeves. Birth: July 1838 Lamar County, Texas, USA Death: January 12,1910 Muskogee Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA Family Links: Wife: Winnie Sumter Children: William Reeves (1877-1942) Total of 10.

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Timeline of a Hero by Wesley Murphy

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  1. Timeline of a Hero by Wesley Murphy
  2. Bass Reeves Birth: July 1838 Lamar County, Texas, USA Death: January 12,1910 Muskogee Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA Family Links: Wife: Winnie Sumter Children: William Reeves (1877-1942) Total of 10
  3. Bass Reeves was born a slave in Crawford County in July 1938. His owners, the William S. Reeves Family , moved to Grayson County, Texas, in 1846. During the Civil War, Bass became a fugitive slave and found refuge in Indian Territory.
  4. Reeves is believed to have served with the irregular or regular Union Indians that fought in Indian Territory during the Civil War.
  5. In 1875, Reeves was hired as a commissioned deputy U.S. Marshal, making him the First black federal lawmen west of the Mississippi River.
  6. During his Law Enforcement, Reeves stood at 6’2 and weighed 180 pounds. He could shoot a pistol or rifle accurately with his right or left hand. Reeves became a legend during his lifetime for his ability to catch criminals under trying circumstances. He brought fugitives by the dozens into Fort Smith Federal jail. Reeves stated the largest number of outlaws he ever caught at one time was nineteen horse thieves he captured near Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
  7. Belle Starr, known as a notorious female outlaw in the ‘’Old West’’ turned herself in at Fort Smith when she found out Reeves had the warrant for her arrest. 1890, Reeves arrested the notorious Seminole outlaw Greenleaf, who had been on the run for eighteen years without capture and had murdered seven people. The same year, Reeves went after the famous Cherokee outlaw Ned Christie. Reeves burned Christies cabin, but he escaped.
  8. In 1893, Reeves was transferred to the East Texas Federal Court at Paris, Texas. He was stationed at Calvin in the Choctaw Nation and took his prisoners to the Federal Commissioner At Pauls' Valley in the Chickasaw Nation.
  9. While working for the Paris Court, Reeves broke up the Tom Story gang of horse thieves that operated in in the Red River Valley.
  10. One of the high points of Reeves’ career was capturing a notorious outlaw named Bob Dozier who was known as the jack of all trades when it came to committing crimes. Because Dozier was unpredictable, he was hard to catch by many lawmen, none were successful until it came to Reeves.
  11. Though the tales of Reeves heroic are many, the toughest manhunt for the lawmen was the hunting down his own son. In 1902, Reeves arrested his own son, Bennie, for domestic murder, in Muskogee .Bennie was convicted and sent to the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. However, sometimes later, with a Citizens petition and an clean prison Record, his son was pardoned and Lived the rest of his life as a model Citizen.
  12. Reeves worked until Oklahoma achieved Statehood in 1907, at which time he became a city policeman for Muskogee. Reeves himself was once charged with murdering his cook. At his trial, he was represented by a good friend, U.S. Attorney W.H.H. Clayton, and was acquitted.
  13. Reeves health failed in 1910, and he died of Bright’s disease on January 12. He was the uncle of Paul L. Brady, the first African American appointed a Federal Administrative Law Judge(1972).
  14. He is now buried in what is a now an unattended cemetery. His grave is marked with a simple wooden cross.
  15. In 2007, the U.S. Route bridge crossing the Arkansas River between Muskogee and Fort Gibson, OKLAHOMA, was named the Bass Reeves Memorial Bridge in Reeves’ honor. Nine decades after his death, Bass Reeves is still considered one of the truly great American frontier hero’s. The legend of Bass Reeves will live as long as people recall stories of bravery and courage in the American West.
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