netflix: DID YOU KNOW the characters in @Netflix’s western revenge tale #TheHarderTheyFall wer
netflix: DID YOU KNOW the characters in @Netflix’s western revenge tale #TheHarderTheyFall were based on actual figures from the old west? Check out this original art by Tumblr Creatr Patience Lekien based on the IRL Wylie Escoe!While Wiley Escoe is the mayor of the all-Black settlement Douglastown in The Harder They Fall, in real life, he was one of several Black deputy U.S. marshals serving in the west following the Civil War. The nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency, the U.S. Marshals Service was created in 1789. As the U.S. expanded westward, deputy marshals were appointed to serve the needs of the federal government. Then—and now—they were charged with protecting the federal judiciary, tracking and apprehending fugitives and managing seized assets. In fact, it was a Black marshal, Ike Rogers, who ultimately arrested Cherokee Bill in 1895.(unknown) Watch The Harder They Fall, playing in select theaters on October 22 and on Netflix globally on November 3. -- source link