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Ezra Tucker - Bass Reeves-US Marshal

$36,000.00 USD
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Ezra Tucker
Bass Reeves-US Marshal
acrylic on board
40h x 30w in
101.60h x 76.20w cm
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$ 36,000 

The area that we know today as the state of Oklahoma was called Indian Territory in the 1800s.  The famous Judge Isaac C. Parker, was the United States Marshall who wielded the federal gavel from 1875 to 1896. He had the burden of policing Indian Territory at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Through his appointed deputy marshals, he brought lawbreakers to justice in the courtroom.  One of the most interesting was an African-American and former slave named Bass Reeves (1838-1910). In 1875, Judge Parker was decisive by appointing Bass Reeves as one of the first, if not the first, African-Americans to hold a federal law enforcement position. During the length of his career as a US Marshal, Reeves became very skilled to hunt and track down notorious outlaws and bring them to justice. It is estimated that Bass Reeves arrested more than 3,000 felons during his career, and he may have been forced to kill as many as 14 outlaws. Legend speaks of Bass Reeves as the original ‘Lone Ranger.’