Dick Bullard, a Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer was killed on January 4, 1902, near Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Agency. He and several officers rode out to take a man into custody after reports that cattle had been illegally slaughtered and the meat stolen on the reservation. The officers first tried to have the man come to the agency to talk, but he had threatened an officer who approached him alone. When the detail returned to make the arrest, the encounter turned volatile: as t
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