45 caliber six-shooters with the handles facing forward. Standing six-feet-two inches and weighing around 200 pounds with large hands, he was an imposing figure who liked to carry two. He also became an expert sharpshooter and was so good, he was allegedly ambidextrous and could shoot accurately with either hand. Before he died, he would bring two more children into the world with his second wife.īass worked as a farmer, rancher, and horse breeder. Bass would return to Arkansas after the end of the Civil War, wed, and have 10 children. He learned the landscape, the customs, and languages of the Seminole and Creek tribes despite being illiterate due to it once being illegal for Black men, women, and children to be able to read. The region was ruled by five Native American tribes - Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw and within these tribes, Bass found kinship.
Before he was declared a Freedman by the Emancipation Proclamation, Reeves fled to Indian Territory, known today as Oklahoma. During the Civil War, Bass was a servant for William’s son George, a colonel in the Confederate Army.
When Bass was around eight in 1846, William relocated to Paris, Texas, just as the Lone Star State would be brought into the Union. Reeves, a cotton farmer and prominent politician in the area. “Bass Reeves is the closest real person to resemble the fictional Lone Ranger on the American western frontier of the nineteenth century,” Burton wrote.īorn a slave in 1838 in Crawford County Arkansas, Reeves’s owner was William S.
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