Bass Reeves and Who the Cowboys Really Were

Watch an older Hollywood Western and you’ll see a sea of white faces, with a token indigenous face who’s inevitably either the villain or the sidekick.
All of this denies the reality of the west…both in the past and today…as something far more diverse than we see on screen. Even more recent portrayals often whitewash the Old West and, most especially, the cowboys and cowgirls.
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