LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A portrait of legendary Black Arkansas Wild West lawman Bass Reeves was unveiled at ... an inspiration for the Lone Ranger. He was born into slavery in 1838, beat the ...

Secretary of State John Thurston unveiled a portrait of Bass Reeves on Wednesday ... putting him in east Texas in the late 1800s and later to what is now eastern Oklahoma in 1897.

Bass Reeves." As a child growing up in Trinidad, he and his grandfather would watch "The Lone Ranger" together and, when approached about joining the Paramount+ series, he was "very shocked to ...