City Marshal Charles T. Farrow, a 42-year-old white male, held the responsibility of keeping order in the young town of Okemah, Oklahoma, during the summer of 1909, when tensions over illegal alcohol were running high and small-town politics often played out in saloons and pool halls. He lived there with his wife and four children and was regarded as the town’s primary symbol of law and authority, a man whose daily work put him directly in conflict with those who tried to profit from skirting
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