Arthur T. Burton: Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2006, ISBN 978-0-8032-1338-8, S.139–148 (englisch, archive.org).
United States Census, 1870.In:FamilySearch.org.p. 10, family 75, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,550,abgerufen am 1.April 2016(englisch):„Bass Reeves, Arkansas, United States“
United States Census, 1880.In:FamilySearch.org.enumeration district ED 50, sheet 582A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0042; FHL microfilm 1,254,042,abgerufen am 1.April 2016(englisch):„Bass Reeves, Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas, United States“
United States Census, 1900.In:FamilySearch.org.citing sheet 20B, family 468, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,853,abgerufen am 1.April 2016(englisch):„Bass Reeves, Muscogee (part of M K & T Railway) Muscogee, Creek Nation, Natives Territory, United States“