Sidney Thompson is telling Bass Reeves’ story — and helping Taylor Sheridan do the same

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The Fort Worth author of two books on Reeves is a creative consultant for Paramount+’s Western drama on the lawman premiering this fall.

“I’ve spent the last 12 years writing three books,” Thompson said. “I thought I was going to write one. But it ended up becoming too sprawling of a project. I couldn’t do the man’s life justice because [his life] was too complicated over too long of a span of time.Sidney Thompson holds three books he authored of the Bass Reeves Trilogy, two of which have been published.

Thompson said his books were one of the inspirations for the streaming series. The eight-episode series was filmed mainly in Waxahachie, Weatherford, Glen Rose, Stephenville and Strawn. . Both his parents, Lamar and Julia, were voracious readers. His father, a university professor, taught African American literature and was passionate about the civil rights movements.He moved from Alabama to Texas to find a place to publish his Reeves novels as his dissertation. Twelve years later, he received his doctorate in African American narratives.

The Paramount+ series focuses on Reeves’ work in Indian Territory where became a prominent lawman during the post-Reconstruction era. A former slave, he spent his early life in Arkansas and Texas. Reeves lived among Native American tribes in Oklahoma and learned many of their languages, Thompson said.“Who did this man become who he was? How do you escape the abuse of that kind of life? How do you perceive your self-identity, grow out of that and have agency?” Thompson said.

Sidney Thompson poses in Dave Reed Hall outside his campus office. The author and TCU writing consultant was photographed at Dave Reed Hall on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth on Sept. 13, 2023.

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