You’ll have read in plenty of other places by now that “This Extraordinary Being” is one of the most captivating and viscerally satisfying episodes of television this year. ‘Watchmen’ Opens Its Mystery Box What Is Will Reeves Going to Use His Mesmerism Device for on ‘Watchmen’? And just as Bass Reeves was the ur-cowboy from which most other onscreen depictions of the archetype flowed, Sunday’s episode of Watchmen disclosed via lengthy flashback that Will Reeves is actually your favorite caped crusader’s favorite caped crusader. marshal-the first black marshal west of the Mississippi. In Black Gun, Silver Star, Burton writes that “Bass Reeves is the closest real person to resemble the fictional Lone Ranger on the American western frontier of the nineteenth century.” Yes, Bass Reeves, “the Black Marshal of Oklahoma,” who spurs on Will Reeves’s heroic exploits in the HBO series Watchmen, was an actual, real-life U.S. Burton, was more than likely a freed slave. However, this procession of tall, blandly handsome white men portrayed a character that, according to biographer Art T. Since the Lone Ranger’s debut on Detroit radio in January 1933, we’ve been reintroduced to one of fiction’s most recognizable cowboys several times over.
When I say “Lone Ranger,” who comes to mind? Is it Robert Livingston, who donned the mask to save his New Mexico homestead from a band of raiders in the 1939 film The Lone Ranger Rides Again? Or is it the square-jawed Clayton Moore, who played renegade Texas lawman John Reid on television in the early 1950s? Maybe you’re thinking of Klinton Spilsbury’s distinctly flared nostrils, or-if you endured the 2013 reboot-Armie Hammer and his overrefined, Ivy League–educated lawyer take on the character.
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