Bass Reeves Quotes

“We come here, ‘cause Injun Territory ain’t got no white man’s law.” ​“You could not be more wrong,” Henry said. “The white man’s law is here, and it comes in the form of a black man.”
― Charles Ray, Bass Reeves : The Indomitable Lawman - Volume 1

“Your friend’s pretty good with children,” Lane said. Little Albert doesn’t usually cotton to strangers, but he seems fascinated by him. He’s an Indian, right?” ​Bass grunted assent. “Yeah, he’s from one of the tribes that live here in the Territory since the government took they land back east.” He wanted to say, so that white folks could farm it, but there was no sense blaming these youngsters for what some bewhiskered old men in Washington did in the name of progress. “He ain’t got no kids himself, ‘cause he can’t find a squaw who’ll put up with him. Me, now, I got me nine, no, ten young’uns back home in Arkansas.”
― Charles Ray, Bass Reeves : The Indomitable Lawman - Volume 1