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TIL about Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River and a former slave. Over the course of his career, he had made over three thousand arrest, never got wounded (except for his hat and belt), and became one of Judge Issac Parker's most valued deputies.

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