More than a century before Johnny Depp wore a terrifying crow headpiece in new Disney film "The Lone Ranger," another hero of the Wild West was carefully arranging his own remarkable disguise.
Sometimes he dressed as a preacher, at other times a tramp, and occasionally even a woman.
But beneath the elaborate
costumes was always Bass Reeves -- a 19th-century Arkansas slave who
became a legendary deputy U.S. marshal, capturing more than 3,000
criminals with his flamboyant detective skills, super strength and
supreme horsemanship.
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