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Once And For All, Is The Lone Ranger Based on Bass Reeves?

by | Jan 25, 2021 | Features & Gunfights

By Art Burton When The Lone Ranger debuted on the radio in Detroit in 1933, racism was at a zenith in the United States. That the story could have possibly originated with an African American could never be published or talked about publicly. I wrote about the similarities in my biography on Bass Reeves, Black Gun, Silver S


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