Bass Reeves, an untold legend of the Old West 

Taylor Sheridan, the man who created Yellowstone is an executive producer of this Bass Reeves mini series. And Taylor is pretty phenomenal when it comes to accuracy of a subject. It actually important to him, to get things right.

@@westendlawn Don't have Paramount+ so I have to wait for it to hit another streaming service but I hope you are right. Have not seen any of the "Yellowstone" shows but I have heard good things about them. I noticed the title is "LawMEN" not "LawMAN" so I wonder if they are going to do a bunch of limited series, each featuring a different lawman. That could be good, especially for a history buff like myself.

It's pretty darn good my outlook on it,If you a fan of western history and Taylor's shows then you'll like it

So far I think they have done Justice to his character. I was presently surprised.

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Invent black heroes and obscure black villains.

@ReadtheTalmudobviously you do.

@ReadtheTalmud it’s funny that this of all things bothers you.

@@lewstone5430 The reason it doesn't bother you is that you are totally ignorant about what is going on here.

@@ShredCo well then, please tell me what is going on here?

Thank you for this. I have to watch it now.

@@Bluesbabesrv 👍🏼

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Loved watching this program.

Thanks for giving a great movie Hollywood played off it's true props. Me as a black man I loved it

Wow!! Thank you!

@ReadtheTalmudTroll.

Invent black heroes and obscure black villains.

If anything, it is Whites who are having their history erased. And it's not just Confederates. BLM/Antifa rioters vandalized every old white guy statue they could, even one of Hans Christian Heg. Heg was an abolitionist who died fighting for the Union!

Very interesting. Do you know how some of those folks ended up in that region?

fascinating true story....unfortunately the show is rather forgettable and disappointing. taylor sheridan "1883" and "wind river" are superior.

I don't even know or heard them,but lawmen us beyond imagination

​@ReadtheTalmudno it isn't, you are propaganda

This is American History 🇺🇸

@@susannpatton2893 Jealousy is a low vibrational energy. Have a beautiful evening. 🌞

@ReadtheTalmudCan you explain?

Invent black heroes and obscure black villains.

@@ShredCowhat’s up bro? You got a problem with black people. Stop being a coward and just say so.

@risitacositas1699 So it's been said. I've never seen any documentation for this claim. Have you? And no, that is not to say that Reeves doesn't deserve to be remembered.

@@harold9394 I think he said all he needed to say to Trigger you. 😂

@@nghtwtchmn129 Its kinda like how they said Cleopatra was black, Stonehenge was created by black people and they "wuz Kangs in sheiittt". 😂

​@ReadtheTalmudstop it horrible

@ReadtheTalmud Sounds like things are not going very well for you. Hope things get better.

Or he was lynched and they hid the body good.

@ReadtheTalmud - So what, this is the USA and we 'claim' to be better than those 'third world countries'.

So, the point of your cruel comment is...??@ReadtheTalmud

dont forget the native americans. there is a lot of ugly in american history, but we can be better.

He was based on a story by Zane Grey called the Lone Star Ranger, but there are a lot of touches added to the Lone Ranger story that have similarities to Bass Reeves. Some are stretches, some are pretty neat.

No, The Lone Star Ranger is what the Lone Ranger is based on. It was published in 1915, but was itself a reworking of a couple different versions by the same author, Zane Grey. Bass Reeves’ story shares some similarities, to be sure, but it wasn’t the basis of the Lone Ranger.

@@benboru9013 okay, so they borrowed some details from Bass Reeves for the creation of the lone ranger. He's still the living person to it. I still think it's cool. Very cool. I first learned about him when I scored a couple of seasons of a show called gunslingers on the American heroes channel. Instantly became mildly obsessed with Bass. Such an incredible man

@@loudrimshot And allow me to go on a bit. I put a similar response in a few other comment threads so I may have been a little tired by the time I typed the one to you…. I completely agree with you. First of all I’m not dismissing any connection between the two, it’s just Lone Ranger wasn’t specifically based on Bass Reeves. HOWEVER, there are some really interesting coincidences between Reeves life and the embellishments of the Lone Ranger from the original story he was based on. The tricky part is that there’s nothing verifiable by document or testimony. But the facts are entertaining. I personally like to think there is a connection, because I love both, but I also don’t think there needs to be a connection. Bass should stand on his own merits, and I worry that when people start claiming that the Lone Ranger was based on him, because it’s a weak argument to make, Reeves will be diminished along with the claim. So for me personally, I think it’s an intriguing anecdote, but don’t want the rising awareness of Bass Reeves to be tethered too strongly to that claim. I’ve been watching for a while wondering when they’d finally do Bass Reeves some justice, so thank goodness it’s finally come. I haven’t watched the show yet but we’re getting paramount next month and then I’m going to sit down and indulge it!

@@benboru9013 thank you so much for the follow. What you wrote is great and you make some great and important points. Bass should stand on his own Merritt. You're right. His story is an incredible one

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The Lone Ranger was actually based on a Zane Grey story titled the Lone Star Ranger. His origin and everything is taken from that story which was published long before the Lone Ranger came out. There was a book written about Bass Reeves that pointed out similarities between Reeves and the Lone Ranger and then people have taken that and run with it to make absolute claims that Lone Ranger is based on Bass Reeves. Bass is his own man deserving of all the honor he receives for being who he was and what he did regardless of similarities to anyone else, real or imagined.