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Historians Believe Story of ‘Lone Ranger’ Was Inspired by Former Slave
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2:23Now PlayingSome historians even believe that Bass Reeves, a Black man born into slavery, was the inspiration for the legendary “Lone Ranger.”
“The Harder They Fall” is the latest in a string of films telling the forgotten story of Black people in the Wild West.
With the movie, a Black director uses a star-studded, all-Black cast to tell a Western story of loyalty, love and revenge. The film’s uniqueness comes from its bold defiance to conventional accounts of the Old West.
Historians estimate that a quarter of cowboys in the west were Black, as these men had mostly either been enslaved by ranchers or were freed men who went west in search of opportunity.
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