Bass Reeves, US Marshal of Indian Territory presentation by author Sidney Thompson

On Tuesday, May 31 at 7 p.m., award-winning author Sidney Thompson will make a presentation about one of the most-feared US Marshals in Indian Territory: Bass Reeves. Thompson considers Reeves the greatest lawman of the Wild West era and has written a series of books about his exploits in the world of the frontier that is now Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas.

“His first book of the trilogy Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy U.S. Marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave.”

Hosted by the Western Trail Historical Society.