BASS REEVES - THE ORIGINAL LONE RANGER OF THE WEST
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Usually when a Black man
Usually when a Black man was portrayed in movies and television shows about the old west, people conjure up images of dusty towns, quick drawing gunmen, cowboys villains in black hats and heroes in white. Indigenous Native Americans were always the bad guys and all the white women were either saints or sinners. If there was a black man, chances are he was holding the horse of the courageous and very white sheriff. The iconic television figure of the 1950’s, The Lone Ranger, was portrayed as a white hero. But in reality, the original Lone Ranger was not white.
The real Lone Ranger, it turns out, was based on an African American man named Bass Reeves, the first black Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River. Reeves worked mostly in Arkansas and the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Although Reeves the man is mostly unrecognizable in much of the Lone Ranger legend, some of the basic aspects remain intact. Both were lawmen hunting bad guys, both were accompanied by a Native American, both rode a white horse, and both gave away a silver trademark to people they encountered.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves is where the fictional West gives way to the actual West. Bass Reeves’ west was a lot more diverse in reality than was shown on film. #bassreeves #blackloneranger #usmarshalreeves
The real Lone Ranger, it turns out, was based on an African American man named Bass Reeves, the first black Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River. Reeves worked mostly in Arkansas and the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Although Reeves the man is mostly unrecognizable in much of the Lone Ranger legend, some of the basic aspects remain intact. Both were lawmen hunting bad guys, both were accompanied by a Native American, both rode a white horse, and both gave away a silver trademark to people they encountered.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves is where the fictional West gives way to the actual West. Bass Reeves’ west was a lot more diverse in reality than was shown on film. #bassreeves #blackloneranger #usmarshalreeves
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در تاریخ 1401/02/08 منتشر شده
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