[enoint]

Because dime novels were indeterminate about race, it’s not a binary set of options. Those novels relied on dialect rather than physical description.

[throwfaraway135]

I think we agree there are a lot of books which you can make movies about where it is more than reasonable to have a black cowboy protagonist.

And this is the right way to do things, and not by pity race swapping some famous character/historical figure.