| LC control no. | n 2005081229 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Reeves, Bass |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1838-07 |
| Death date | 1910-01-12 |
| Place of birth | Paris (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Muskogee (Okla.) |
| Affiliation | Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma Seminole Nation of Oklahoma |
| Profession or occupation | Farmers Police Marshals |
| Found in | Black gun, silver star, c2006: title page (frontier marshall Bass Reeves) Nelson, V.M. Bad news for outlaws, 2008: ECIP title page (Bass Reeves; Deputy U.S. Marshall) galley (died Jan. 12, 1910) Wikipedia.org, viewed Jan. 14, 2008 (Bass Reeves; born a slave July 1838; d. Jan. 1910) African American National Biography, accessed March 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Reeves, Bass; farmer, deputy marshal; born July 1838 in Paris, Texas, United States; spent the Civil War years living among the Creek and Seminoles tribes; learned to speak several Indian languages; moved to Van Buren, Arkansas, became a prosperous farmer (1864); appointed to serve as a deputy marshal in the Indian Territory (1875); proved to be the most successful at capturing criminals and traveled all over Indian Territory (1875-1907); was accused of killing his cook during an argument (1884), arrested (1886), and relieved of his duties as deputy marshal; was acquitted (1887) and transferred to Muskogee (now Oklahoma) (1889); when his position of deputy marshal was phased out, he joined the Muskogee police (1907); died 12 January 1910 in Muskogee, Okla.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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