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  • Complete Monster: This duo of vile racists personify much of what was wrong with The Wild West:
    • Colonel Graham is the corrupt and racist commanding officer of the 10th Cavalry. After murdering a deserter when hero Jesse Lee refuses to do so, Graham tries to get the 10th Cavalry killed as deserters, later returning to hunt them down and kill whoever gets in the way. Allying with the equally wicked Sheriff Bates, Graham attempts to wipe out the town of Freemanville in his quest to murder Jesse.
    • Sheriff Bates of Cutterstown is a racist Ku Klux Klan member who led the lynching of Jesse's father, King David. Determined to murder Jesse, Bates attempts to lynch him as well, beating one of his friends to death when that fails. Upon the arrest of the posse, Bates frames Jesse by murdering Cutterstown's mayor himself and later allies with Graham to wipe out Freemanville, even killing his own partner there when the man quarrels with him.

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