Bass Reeves Part 5

Send us a textHowdy and Welcome back to Wild West Deep Dives.This is our 5th episode of our Deep Dive into Bass Reeves. We have been talking about Bass Reeves for what? A month now? And we still have so much more to discuss! This week, we will talk about Bass’s encounter with Ben Billy, take a quick glance at him arresting a future Deputy Marshal, some tragedies in his personal life, the Bandit Queen’s son and the last major change of Bass’s career.Join me on Patreon, episode 6 is now available and I released an episode a couple weeks ago on the First Stagecoach Robbery in United States History!! Thank you everyone for their support!Sources for this episode;o   Black Gun, Silver Star by Art. T. Burtono   https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-bassreeves/o   https://www.cowboysindians.com/2023/12/the-real-bass-reeves/o   https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bass-Reeveso   https://biographics.org/bass-reeves/o   https://allpoetry.com/poem/18127336-Bass-Reeves--Cowboy-Marshal--by-ZZ-Tomo   https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/ethj/article/2699/&path_info=3_Paris_is_Burning_Lynching_and_Racial_Violence_in_Lamar_County.pdfo   https://www.legendsofamerica.com/robert-christian-outlaw/o   https://www.legendsofamerica.com/will-black-jack-christian/Support the showSocial Media Links;Instagram @wildwestdeepdivesTik Tok @wildwestdeepdives