Black Marshal: The Hunt for Dozier(2002)

""...some folks was born to do certain things.""

Overview

Based on the life of U.S. Deputy Bass Reeves, a black marshal in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in the years of 1867 to 1883, and his successful hunt for the elusive Dozier. A man of great valor who spoke several Indian dialects, Reeves was a deputy U.S. marshal for over thirty years and retired as a policeman in Muskogee.