How Did Bass Reeves Work?
BrainStuff
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4.0 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Bass Reeves was one of the first Black deputy marshals in the Old West, and one of the most successful. Learn more about him in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/bass-reeves.htm
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| 0:39.8 | He stood six feet two inches tall or nearly two meters, weighed 180 pounds or about 80 kilos |
| 0:46.5 | and could reportedly whoop two men at a time with his bare hands. |
| 0:51.0 | He was as quick on the draw as he was deadly accurate with his Winchester rifle, capable |
| 0:55.8 | of taking down a running target at a quarter mile, that's 400 meters. |
| 1:00.6 | He wore a thick handlebar mustache and spit-shined boots, unless he was in one of his clever |
| 1:05.7 | disguises. |
| 1:07.9 | In the storied American West of the late 1800s, where lawmen pursued outlaws for high-priced |
| 1:13.9 | bounties, none deserved their fame as much as Bass Reeves. |
| 1:20.8 | Born into slavery in 1838, Reeves escaped to what was then called Indian Territory during |
| 1:26.6 | the Civil War and emerged as a skilled marksman and tracker who could speak multiple Native |
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