Zack Horton

Zack Horton, 43, male, left home in Ouachita County on the evening of January 25, 1927, as a deputy sheriff headed for a dangerous assignment on the outskirts of Camden. Prohibition had turned backwoods stills into flashpoints, and a tip sent the sheriff’s posse to the Miller’s Bluff area, where a moonshiner operated out of a rough tent encampment. As the officers approached to raid the site, the night exploded—gunfire from a shotgun met the lawmen in the dark, and in the exchange Horton f ...

Deputy Sheriff Zack Horton