In the summer of 1906, United States Deputy Marshal James H. Bush, a man committed to the law, met a tragic end in the wooded terrain of Polk County, Arkansas. Born in February 1872, the 34-year-old lawman had transitioned from farming to a dangerous new career, accepting his post in the Western District Court of Arkansas in December 1904. This path would lead him to a fatal encounter on June 27, 1906, while attempting to serve a warrant on a man named Martin Miller for illegally cutting and rem
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