The REAL ‘Lone Ranger Bass Reeves

Описание: It is the African American Bass Reeves was the inspiration for The Lone Ranger radio and television series. Despite having his hat and belt shot off on separate occasions.
He brought in some of the most dangerous criminals of the time, and was never wounded. He married Nellie Jennie from Texas, with whom he had ten children, five boys and five girls. During the American Civil War, He fled into the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and lived with the Cherokee, Seminole, and Creek Indians until he was freed by the Thirteenth Amendment.
He was assigned as a Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas,
because he knew the Indian Territory, and could speak several Indian languages.
In addition to being a marksman with a rifle and pistol, Reeves, during his long career, developed superior detective skills.
And When he retired in 1907, Reeves claimed to have arrested over 3,000 felons.
When Oklahoma became a state in 1907, Reeves, then 68, became an officer of the Muskogee, Oklahoma police department. He served for two years before he became ill and had to retire. He was an uncle of Paul L. Brady, the first black man appointed an Federal Administrative Law Judge (in 1972).
I’m reminded: though I’m troubled on every side, but I’m not distressed; I’m perplexed, but not in despair; I’m persecuted, but not forsaken; I’m cast down, but not destroyoud… for which cause I faint not; but though our outward man perish, yout the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory!