New Yellowstone Spin-off Series Dramatizes Life of Historic Black U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves in the Wild West

Written by on March 18, 2023

(left) David Oyelowo (right) Bass Reeves – credit CBS press gallery, University of Oklahoma Library.

The popular television drama Yellowstone is producing a spinoff season to dramatize one of the most legendary figures in the Wild West, Bass Reeves.

Interest in Reeves as a historical figure with as much potential for film and television as Wyatt Earp, has grown since the turn of the millennium.

For those who aren’t read up on potentially the greatest lawman of the West,



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