Bad Ass of the Week brings back the
western again with a profile of Texas Ranger Bass Reeves. Here’s a sneak peak:
After
the Thirteenth Amendment made the south a little less suck-tastic for black
people, Bass Reeves left his adoptive home with the Indians, bought a home in
Arkansas, got married, had like ten kids, and lived for a while as a farmer and
a horse breeder. That was cool and all, but Bass Reeves was the kind of guy who
was always looking to serve up a nice warm knuckle sandwich to anything capable
of feeling pain and he wasn't happy living the boring life of successful
rancher. So when the infamous hardass "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker
put out a call for U.S. Marshals in 1875, Bass was one of the first volunteers
ready and willing to bring lethal hordes of armed-and-dangerous felons to
justice. Thanks to his mammoth physical strength, tracking skills, intimate
knowledge of the terrain, and language proficiency, he easily earned a spot on
the force.
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