THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF TOM BASS THE FIRST HORSE WHISPERER

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Tom Bass was the son of a slave who developed highly sought after skills in horse training and was known for introducing a new, gentler way of training horses. He became known world-wide for his skills, becoming friends with a wide range of showmen and celebrities like Wild Bill Cody, Will Rogers, and a number of US Presidents. This is his story. Enjoy 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on the Podbean Podcast App today! Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podbean.app.podcast iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podbean-podcasts-on-the-go/id973361050?ls=1&mt=8 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr. Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Oh, Hello everyone.
0:25.0	welcome back to 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories and Mysteries Podcast. This is your host John
0:34.8	Hagadorn and I've got a great story about a man who is a legend in his own time.
0:39.0	One of the best horse trainers of all time, Tom Bass. If his life story isn't a movie, it should be. They say
0:48.5	that white men can't dance and black men can't ride horses. That's bullwacky on both counts. This is a story of a
0:55.6	preed slave who became one of the most popular and respected horse trainers of the late 19th
1:00.4	and early 20th centuries. In the days before cars fully replaced the horse and wagon.
1:07.0	Those were days when owning a prize horse meant something.
1:10.8	Tom Bass at the height of his career trained horses for men like Buffalo Bill Cody,
1:15.2	Will Rogers, and President Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley, just to name a few.
1:20.4	And people would travel from all around the world to see his horses in shows.
1:25.2	Tom Bass was to horses, what Jack Johnson was to boxing and Harriet Tubman was to civil
1:30.8	rights. His training and methods of working with horses changed the way
1:35.5	horses were treated not just here in the US but all around the world and that type
1:40.4	of training and those methods are at the core of movies and books like the Horse Whisper.
1:45.0	Tom Bass was born a slave on the Hayden Plantation in Boone County, Missouri on January 5, 1859.
1:53.4	His mother, Cornelia Gray, was a slave.
1:56.2	His father, William Hayden Bass, was the son of wealthy plantation owner Eli Bass. Eli Bass owned and trained a great number of horses and young Tom Bass watched and learned fast.
2:08.0	In fact, as Tom once said, he was no bigger than a horsefly when he began to spend time with the horses getting to know them
2:15.4	As a toddler he had no fear of them
2:17.6	He would walk under the bigger horses without having to stoop and by age four he was riding them. At age six he was jumping fences. At
2:26.8	age seven he was given a bulky old mule called Mr. Potts by his Grandpa Presley
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