Lindsey Graham
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15,077 appearances
196 recordings
52 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 16 Sep
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Marshal in the West.
For three decades, he hunted down murderers, horse thieves, and bootleggers across a vast and remote terrain, resulting in countless dramatic shootouts and hairbreadth escapes.
At a time when segregation was taking hold across the South, the West offered a unique opportunity for a man like Reeves.
While still facing racial discrimination, he nevertheless became one of the most formidable lawmen in the history of the West, feared by outlaws across Indian Territory for his relentless pursuit of justice and his deadly marksmanship.
His career spanned Indian Territory's transition into statehood, a rare period of possibility for a former slave turned cunning lawman.
To help tell this story, we've enlisted actor Ace Anderson to voice the characters you'll hear throughout this episode.
This is Episode 3 in our five-part series on frontier legends, Bass Reeves.
Bass Reeves was born enslaved in July 1838 in Arkansas.
He adopted the last name of his owner, William Reeves, a farmer and state legislator.
When Bass was eight years old, his owner loaded up 30 covered wagons and moved his family and his slaves to northern Texas.
As Bass grew older, William Reeves removed him from fieldwork and made him his personal servant.
Although he refused to let Bass learn to read, he trusted him enough to take the unusual step of allowing him to handle firearms, a privilege denied to most enslaved people.
Bass quickly proved himself a gifted marksman, and Reeves began entering him into shooting contests.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, William Reeves' son, George, enlisted as a Confederate cavalryman, and he brought 23-year-old Bass with him to the front lines.
But one night, a heated argument during a card game ended with Bass knocking George unconscious.
Fearing that he could be punished with death for assaulting his owner, Bass fled west to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.
Indian Territory had been established by the U.S.
government in the early 1830s as the final destination for Indian tribes who were being expelled from their native lands in the South.
Around that time, federal officials began forcibly relocating the so-called Five Civilized Tribes, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.
And there, on the Great Plains, each tribe operated as its own nation, with its own government and court systems.
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