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Title: Tom Bass
Description: 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.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Tom Bass Saddle Room
Description: A photograph with the caption: "A snap shot at the saddle room in Tom Bass's training stable."
Date: 1897-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Tom Bass, Horseman
Description: 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.
Date: 1976-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Around the World in Missouri
Description: 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.
Date: 2003-08-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Unlikely Rider is Getting His Dues
Description: 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."
Date: 2008-09-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Tom Bass
Description: Short biography of Tom Bass (1859-1934). Born a slave, he became a rider and trainer of fine show horses. He was involved with the American Royal Horse Show in Kansas City.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Tom Bass
Description: 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.
Date: 1966
Object Type: Book Section

Title: African Americans in Mid-Missouri: From Pioneers to Ragtimers
Description: This book describes some of the accomplishments and contributions African-Americans have made to Mid-Missouri. Included in the text are chapters on rag-time greats Scott Joplin and Blind Boone, focusing on Sedalia as a musical center for black musical entertainment.
Date: 2010
Object Type: Book

Title: Tom Bass
Description: Biographical sketch of Tom Bass, the champion horseman, "one of the all time names high in the history of" the American Royal and a performer "before four Presidents--Cleveland, McKinley, T. R. Roosevelt and Coolidge."
Date: 1905-05-03
Object Type: Book

Title: Tom Bass
Description: Biography of Tom Bass, a black man renowned in the late 1800s for his horsemanship and "[f]or over 50 years America's premier [horse] trainer," from Mexico, Missouri, with photo.
Date: 1905-06-20
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Tom Bass (1859-1934), Horse Trainer and Founder of the American Royal Horse Show
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: From Slave to World-Class Horseman: Tom Bass
Description: Book with photos, illustrations, and information on Tom Bass (1859-1934), a black equestrian born near Ashland, Missouri, into slavery and becoming "the nation's preeminent horseman." Briefly a resident of Kansas City "visited by U. S. presidents and other famous contemporaries" and becoming "the first black person to appear in a U. S. horse show and the first to receive worldwide recognition as a trainer" as co-organizer of "the original Kansas City horse show in 1894, which eventually became the American Royal Livestock and Horse Show," etc.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Best of Missouri: Missouri Pays Tribute to a Legendary Horseman
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

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