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Edward Baum

Case from Checotah, OK dated Mar 27, 1909

Victim Details

Name

Edward Baum

Gender

Male

Race

Southwest Asian (Indian / Pakistani)

City

Checotah

State

OK

Date Of Death

1909-03-27

Age At Death

38

First Name

Edward

Last Name

Baum

Last Updated

06/27/2026

Case Description

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City Marshal Edward “Ed” Baum was a 38-year-old male serving as the chief law officer of the young town of Checotah, Oklahoma, when the trouble that had been simmering for years finally reached him on March 27, 1909. In the rolling country west of town, Muscogee traditionalists and their allies had gathered around the charismatic leader Chitto “Crazy Snake” Harjo, a man who resisted allotment and the dismantling of tribal sovereignty. Newspapers and later historians would remember the cl ...

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