John Morrison

Death by Force

On the night of July 17, 1907, Deputy U.S. Marshal John W. Morrison was working in and around Sasakwa City, a small community in what would soon become Seminole County, Oklahoma, when routine law enforcement duty turned into a deadly encounter. At 37 years old, he was a white male lawman serving both as a deputy U.S. marshal and as the marshal of Sasakwa City, tasked with bringing order to a rough landscape of new towns, scattered farms, and thinly policed roads at the edge of statehood.
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Deputy U.S. Marshal John W. Morrison

118 Years Ago John W. Morrison – Deputy U. S. Marshal / City ...

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