Image Bass Reeves (Oyelowo) accompanied George Reeves ... at a time when Black westerners were often written out of history books. It seems telling that the series is based on a work of historical ...

SEE Chanda Dancy interview: ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves' composer The fact that Reeves ... “We immediately hired him as a consultant and optioned his books,” he says. “I used part of his first ...

Bass Reeves was a runaway slave ... Freeman said, Thompson decided he wanted to rectify this situation. The first book of the trilogy was Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, which chronicles ...

Bass Reeves' based on two historical fiction novels ... Follow the Doves," and 2021's "Hell on the Border." The book, TV series and a minor 2019 movie follow Reeves' remarkable journey from ...

Bass Reeves used to be the kind of deep-cut Wild West hero known only to American history professors and people who own complete sets of Time-Life books. A fascinating figure, Reeves was enslaved ...

The Paramount+ series “Lawmen: Bass Reeves,” which concluded on Sunday, was based not on history books or biographies but on novels. The most prominent telling of his story so far was a ...

Bass Reeves should be a household name because he ... who worked as a historical consultant on the show and has published three books about Reeves. His fascination with the lawman began after ...

He died 3 years later after falling ill Most of what we know about Reeves' life comes from the 2008 book "Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves" by Art T.

Last episode of Lawmen: Bass Reeves saw Bass confronted with a horrifying reality: Esau Pierce, the man who killed young Curtis back in May 1865 is not only now a Texas Ranger, but may very well ...

On Thursday, Paramount+ gave TV fans a glimpse at what they’ll be able to expect from Lawmen: Bass Reeves when it arrives on November 5th. The streamer released the first official trailer for ...

"Lawmen" borrows heavily from the first two historical fiction novels from Thompson's "Bass Reeves Trilogy": 2020's "Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves," and 2021's "Hell on the Border." The book ...