Freed Men
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9 min readAug 1, 2020
A night on the other side
Author’s note: The following excerpt is from my historical novel West of the Dead Line, Tales of an Indian Territory Lawman. Bass Reeves was an ex-slave, an adopted Creek Indian, and a feared man with a badge. He was one of the first black men to serve as Deputy U.S. Marshal for Judge Isaac Parker’s — “The Hanging Judge” — Federal Court in Ft. Smith, Arkansas in the late 19th Century. For two decades Reeves roamed the…
