netflix:DID YOU KNOW the characters in @Netflix’s western revenge tale #TheHarderTheyFall were
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 Nyanza D. based on the IRL Rufus Buck!Rufus Buck, the son of a Black woman and a Muscogee (Creek Indian) man, wasted no time jumping into his vocation as an outlaw. He was just 18 when he led his five-person gang of young Black and Indigenous gunslingers on a 13-day violent crime spree. His goal was to trigger an uprising and reclaim the parts of Indian Territory that later became Oklahoma and Arkansas for the native people who had lived there for centuries. Ultimately unsuccessful and arrested for his crimes on 1895, the young outlaw was hanged a year later at Fort Smith in Arkansas.(1877–1896) Watch The Harder They Fall, playing in select theaters on October 22 and on Netflix globally on November 3. -- source link