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Howdy and Welcome back to our final episode of our Deep Dive into the life of Bass Reeves.

This has been an amazing series and thank you for all the support through emails, on social media, I can’t even explain how cool it is having a community to share my love of western history with! Y’all are awesome!

This week, we will talk about Bass’s retirement and his later years, talk about some common questions on Bass Reeves and finish with our discussion on the recent series Lawmen; Bass Reeves.

Going forward, I am going to release a few one off episodes while I work on the next Deep Dive, I’m thinking about going back to the time of the trappers, what do y’all think? If you have any suggestions, please email me!

I don’t know if I’ll have episodes available next week as I am also working on starting a Youtube, just add that to the to-do-list shall we.. but I will try my best!

But seriously, thank you everyone for the support and kind words, it means the world to me and makes me work that much harder to release the best content I can.

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Sources for this episode;

o Black Gun, Silver Star by Art. T. Burton

o https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-bassreeves/

o https://www.cowboysindians.com/2023/12/the-real-bass-reeves/

o https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bass-Reeves

o https://biographics.org/bass-reeves/

o https://www.healthline.com/health/glomerulonephritis

o https://truewestmagazine.com/article/was-bass-reeves-the-real-lone-ranger/

o https://www.fox23.com/news/muskogee-county-officials-announce-new-public-safety-complex/article_c646aef0-6467-47be-bf38-6d25969bf8f8.html

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Howdy and Welcome back to Wild West Deep Dives.

This is our 7th episode of our deep dive into Bass Reeves, there will be one more episode next week and that’ll be the final one! These next two will be shorter episodes, sort of like the Seth Bullock series, I don’t want to rush the conclusion and I’d rather do 2 shorter ones then a long one and rush to the end.

This week, we will be talking about Bass’s reappointment, more racial tensions, talk about some other Black Deputy US Marshals, an attempt on Bass’s life and finish with the largest shootout in Muskogee History.

As always, join me on Patreon, the FINAL episode is now available!

Sources for this episode;

o Black Gun, Silver Star by Art. T. Burton

o https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-bassreeves/

o https://www.cowboysindians.com/2023/12/the-real-bass-reeves/

o https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bass-Reeves

o https://biographics.org/bass-reeves/

o https://allpoetry.com/T_Stich

o https://www.dimelibrary.com/post/bass-reeves

§ Photo from 1907 in Muskogee, Bass Reeves far left

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Howdy and Welcome back to Episode 6 of our Deep Dive into the life of Bass Reeves.

Last week, we discussed 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.

This week, we will talk about the background of Muskogee, Bass’s arrest of James McKellop, the Wybark Tragedy, some of his work in Muskogee, some personal events of Bass’s life and the arrest of his own son.

Join me on Patreon, you will get access to Episodes one week earlier, so Part 7 is already available and access to some bonus content as well!

Sources for this episode;

o Black Gun, Silver Star by Art. T. Burton

o https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-bassreeves/

o https://www.cowboysindians.com/2023/12/the-real-bass-reeves/

o https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bass-Reeves

o https://biographics.org/bass-reeves/

o https://www.newspapers.com/article/muskogee-phoenix-bass-reeves-arrests-5-w/2394621/

§ Wybark Tragedy article from Muskogee Phoenix

o https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/08/18/ben-reeves-at-the-national-archives/

§ Ben Reeves Article

o https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shaver-3537

§ WR Dick Shaver children

o https://theemancipator.org/author/justin-a-davis/

o https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/buffalo-soldiers

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