George Williams

George Williams, a male deputy U.S. marshal serving with the United States Marshals Service in Oklahoma, met his death on November 16, 1907, in the small community of Comanche, just as the former territory was entering statehood. He was working in an era when frontier towns and scattered settlements in southwestern Oklahoma still carried the rough edge of Indian Territory days, and federal lawmen were expected to ride long distances, confront armed suspects, and impose order where local authorit ...

Deputy U.S. Marshal George Williams

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