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Bass Reeves: The Real Lone Ranger Was Black

Dwana Young · 2/22/219:57 AM

If you’re like me, you remember watching the popular television show, The Lone Ranger, where it depicted a white man who wore a disguise on a white horse and had a Native American counterpart with him named Tonto. The story we are most familiar with started out as a radio show, then a popular television show that ran from 1949 to 1957, then comic books, and several cartoons and big-budget movies. But like many things during slavery, history may have been obscured and the actual “Lone Ranger”...

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Bass Reeves: The Real Lone Ranger Was Black

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