From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

It didn’t seem an unusual altercation among off-duty Confederate soldiers during the early days of the American Civil War . An after-dark card game, a sense of injustice or cheating, a swift dispensing of physical retaliation. It happened often and regularly. But this particular disagreement was unlike any other. […]

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