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I finally got around to watching the first episode. I was geeked out that in the first five seconds of the episode, they mentioned real life hero lawman, Bass Reeves (the actor on screen looked exactly like him).
First Black lawman West of the Mississippi who was a Federal Marshall in Texas and Oklahoma for 32 years.
He made over 3,000 felony arrests in his career and was so feared by outlaws that just a letter from him saying he was coming to arrest a man was enough to make the man surrender.
Some say, Bass Reeves , a former slave was, at least in part, the inspiration for Djano in the Tarantino movie, 'Django Unchained'.
First Black lawman West of the Mississippi who was a Federal Marshall in Texas and Oklahoma for 32 years.
He made over 3,000 felony arrests in his career and was so feared by outlaws that just a letter from him saying he was coming to arrest a man was enough to make the man surrender.
Some say, Bass Reeves , a former slave was, at least in part, the inspiration for Djano in the Tarantino movie, 'Django Unchained'.