Posted on 01/19/2013 1:27:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Bass Reeves, one of the first African Americans to become a Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River, could have been an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s fictional character Django.
Reeves, who was born a slave, arrested 3,000 felons, killed 14 men and was never shot throughout his 32-year career as a federal lawman.
The fearless solider was born into slavery in 1838 in Crawford County, Arkansas, and eventually broke from his owner, George Reeves, to live among the Creek and Seminole Indians.
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Good article-thnx for the post.Must’ve been one very tough hombre.Lived to the age of 72.I’d never heard of him.Time for me to do some online research.
Or, Sheriff Bart of Rock Ridge?
This would have made a better story than Django.
He must have lived with resettled Seminoles because the Florida Seminoles owned slaves. I believe one of the notable Florida Seminole chiefs owned something like 200 slaves.
Thought this might be about Nat Love - aka “Deadwood Dick”.
The Clint Eastwood movie Hang ‘em High was also loosely based on Bass Reeves and Judge Issac Parker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Parker
Parker replaced a corrupt federal judge with the unenviable job of trying to clean up the Indian Territories, which was a huge amount of land, and the stalking ground of badmen. Parker’s jurisdiction covered the non-Indians in the territory.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Okterritory.png/800px-Okterritory.png
He was not a slavery advocate, however his comments about this mythic character that Tarantino's blowing out of all proportion are diagnostic, he was a bandit.
Dang it! Too late..
The Sheriff is ‘drawing near’
No, dag nabbitt!
He’s Upitty, upitty, upitty I tell you. Just in time for Black History Month
He’s Upitty, upitty, upitty I tell you. Just in time for Black History Month
He’s Upitty, upitty, upitty I tell you. Just in time for Black History Month
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