JUDD: Bass Reeves Was A Lawman Like No Other
(World News USA)

He was a trickster, a master of disguise, illiterate, fearless, a survivor, and in his early days a slave dragged into the midst of the Civil War by the man he was expected to consider his “master.” But this independent-minded man wasn`t willing to put up with hanging around a Confederate camp forever. He decided enough was enough, beat up his master after a card game and took off on his own. Slave? No thanks been there, done that. Bass Reeves wasn`t going back for more. Not with a wide-open, developing nation spreading out westward, where a smart man could make his own opportunities. Before he was through, this 6-foot-2 Texas-born mustachioed ex-slave would make himself into a legendary...