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Tom Bass honored in American Royal Week feature
A Kansas City Star special highlights Mexico's Tom Bass and the Saddle Horse Museum. The ex slave rose to fame as a trainer and showman, starting Kansas City's horse shows, winning with Belle Beach and Rex McDonald, and earning praise from presidents and lawmakers.
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Kansas City Star
Mexico
Tom Bass
Saddle Horse Museum
Dorothy Laskey
Belle Beach
Bass
Missouri General Assembly
American Saddle Horse Museum
Audrain County Historical ‘Society Museum
Rex McDonald
Rex
Royal
Frank Servatius
the Royal
Kansas City
Miss Tuepker
Columbus
Elmwood
Forrest Smith
Bell
N. Olive Street
Missouri
House of Representative
The
Europe
39Th and
Main
Exposition Grounds
15Th Street
Fairmont Park
Convention Hall
Missouri Historical Review
Columbia
Chicago
American Saddle Horse
Miss Tuecker
Missouri Manual
Grover Cleveland
Marie
Romania
London
Queen Victoria
Futhermore
Bell Beach
Tom
Belle
Jerry McCoy
Chesnut
Ft. Leavenworth
Miss Rex
McKinley
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Loula Long Combs
William Rockhill Nelson
Herbert Woolf
Armours
Jack O’ Diamonds
Bassis
Jack
Will Rogers