"All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defining hubris, but few rise from the ashes to achieve greater heights. In 1884, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was arrested for murder and placed among his own prisoners in the federal jail in Fort Smith, Arkansas, known infamously as Hell on the Border. It was the single greatest setback of his illustrious career, but it wouldn't be his last mistake or trial by fire. We now meet Reeves again in the...

"Sidney Thompson tells the story of the early career of one of the greatest deputy U.S. Marshals in American history, Bass Reeves, and his life as a slave before he became a lawman"--