Legacy of a Lawman: A Western Story

<p>Bass Reeves was a man of color and a deputy United States marshal. For thirteen years he was<br>sided by Dave Adams, also a deputy marshal, and a white man. Bennie Reeves was Bass Reeves s<br>son and a barber, a good one, before he shot down his unarmed wife who had been cheating on<br>him and then disappeared. U.S. Marshal Leo E. Bennett, known as Doc because he had been a<br>physician before his appointment in federal law enforcement, had reservations about handing<br>the warrant to Bass Reeves to be served against Bennie. For Bass there was no reservation. His<br>son had broken the law and was a fugitive. He was willing to find and capture Bennie, to bring<br>him back to face trial for his crime. Dave Adams would accompany Bass Reeves, as he had for so<br>long. Bass thought he knew where to look for his son, and he found him and arrested him. But<br>then Bennie was suddenly freed from custody by the notorious Cherokee Bob Dozier and his gang<br>of renegades. Cherokee Bob had been a criminal at large for a long time. He had committed a<br>number of robberies, accompanied by murders, because Cherokee Bob did not believe in leaving<br>behind any witnesses. So when the pursuit of Bennie continued, it was now fraught with far<br>more danger. Even with Dave Adams to side him, Bass Reeves would be vastly outnumbered, and<br>Cherokee Bob knew where to hide.</p>