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Title
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Tom Bass
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Description
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File contains newspaper clippings and information about Tom Bass, the famous Black horse trainer, rider, and inventor of the Bass bit. He was a native of Boone County, Missouri, coming to Kansas City in 1894 after participating in the 1893 Columbian Exposition, with a livery business at 39th and Main Streets.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Tom Bass Saddle Room
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Description
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A photograph with the caption: "A snap shot at the saddle room in Tom Bass's training stable."
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Date
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1897-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Tom Bass, Horseman
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Description
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Biographical article about Tom Bass (1859-1934), the expert black horseman from Kansas City, a trainer of many horses and riders, including Buffalo Bill Cody's trick horse, with photos.
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Date
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1976-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Around the World in Missouri
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Description
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Focus on five towns in Missouri that share the same name of world locations: Cuba, Japan, Paris, Mexico, and Vienna. See page 74 for a quiz of 10 more international locales within the state of Missouri. Mexico, Missouri, was home of the former slave Tom Bass who had "extraordinary skill in training and exhibiting American saddle horses" and invented the Bass bit.
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Date
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2003-08-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Unlikely Rider is Getting His Dues
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Description
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The Tom Bass Arena, "a $1.3 million equine warm-up facility at the [American Royal] complex in Kansas City's West Bottoms," is nearly complete. It is named after African American horseman Tom Bass who was a prominent American Royal figure during its early years. Bass was born in 1859, son of a wealthy Boone County, Mo., landowner and one of his slave girls. He was freed at the end of the Civil War. During his career he "performed before presidents and trained horses for celebrities such as Missouri Gov. C. H. Hardin and, later, Buffalo Bill Cody." In 1892 he put on Kansas City's first horse show, a benefit for the Fire Department. "Bass' last appearance at the American Royal was in 1928. He died in 1934."
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Date
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2008-09-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Tom Bass
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Tom Bass, an expert black equestrian and world class horse trainer from Kansas City, "the first black to ride in Madison Square Garden, by intervention of the Vanderbilt family," with illustrations.
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Date
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1966
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Best of Missouri: Missouri Pays Tribute to a Legendary Horseman
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Description
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Biographical article about Tom Bass (1859-1934), the expert black horseman from Kansas City and new inductee into the Hall of Famous Missourians, the trainer of "horses for Teddy Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Buffalo Bill Cody," and others, with photo.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
