NARRATIVE: Bass Reeves (July 1838 – January 12, 1910), Bass's career was filled with many accounts that describe a man dedicated to justice, facing danger and testing his limits of endurance and ingenuity. Occasionally, we can find a little bit of comedy in the way he executed his duties as well. One such story is the time when Bass learned where four bank robbers were hiding out in a cabin and he devised a plan to arrest them. He dressed up as a poor farmer, borrowed a team of oxen and a cart and drove to the cabin. Knowing the robbers would want to get rid of him so they wouldn't have any attention attracted to their whereabouts, Bass purposely got the wagon stuck next to the cabin hideout and knocked on the door to ask the four men to help him so he could be on his way. While the bank robbers' hands and attention were distracted, Bass had an opportunity to cover them with his Henry rifle and put them under arrest. He subsequently chained them to the ox cart and made them walk 28 miles behind it to the jail to await trial.