High Horse: The Black Cowboy

Matt Roush says...

“The actual Lone Ranger was a Black man,” says one of the experts in executive producer Jordan Peele’s provocative three-part historical docuseries, whose goal is to tell the largely untold story of the Black cowboy and reclaim a neglected part of American and Wild West history. The series explores legendary figures, including U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves and the turn-of-the-last-century mail carrier known as Stagecoach Mary, laments the appropriation of lands once owned by Black farmers, and celebrates the Black culture that influenced country music and Western fashion. Turns out Cowboy Carter was on to something.

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