
Set against the backdrop of Langston, Oklahoma, our protagonists converge on the town for love, money and revenge. So I set the story in 1890 and I threw everyone in it: Ben Hodges, Rufus Buck, Nat Love, Bill Picket, Stagecoach Larry, Jordan Anderson, etc.” All of these places that are criminally unsung. Samuel told Jay Z’s Life+Times in 2013, “We got Black Wall Street (Langston, Oklahoma). The film was an accompaniment to Samuel’s album, They Die By Dawn & Other Stories. Erykah Badu, to tell the real life stories of African-American cowboys and cowgirls. Originally premiering at SXSW in 2013, director Jeymes Samuel, who goes by the pseudonym The Bullitts, collected a who’s who of Black Hollywood, along with one Ms.
