Bass Reeves & The Choctaw Lighthorse

 January 18, 2021

   My morning sight. Newspapers in the driveway, pink clouds on the horizon and two sentinels at the entrance to Cactusland. 

   Life is good.

   Working on a couple of concepts and ideas. Here is a sneak peek at our Bass Reeves coverage in the next issue of True West magazine.

Choctaw Lighthorse Policemen, 1885

   If there's a cooler name than Choctaw Lighthorse, I don't know what it is. That is the name of the Native policemen who dispenced justice in the Choctaw Nation. Has anyone ever done them as the subject of a movie? I don't recall seeing them, front and center, anyway. Well, mark my words, that is going to change.

Daily Whip Out:

"Bass Reeves & The Choctaw Lighthorse"

U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves leads six Choctaw Lighthorse Indian Police into the Chickasaw Nation. They are on the trail of Sonny Sixkiller, who murdered T. S. Morgan at Blue Tank in the Choctaw Nation.

"There is a dark side to our history. But those who see it only in terms of the warts are as one-sided as those who only see the glory."

—Elmer Kelton

“There is a dark side

to our history. But those who see it only in

terms of the warts are as one-sided as those

who see only the glory.”

“There is a dark side

to our history. But those who see it only in

terms of the warts are as one-sided as those

who see only the glory.”

“There is a dark side

to our history. But those who see it only in

terms of the warts are as one-sided as those

who see only the glory.”

"Why is Miss Universe always from earth?"

—Steven Wright