L.C. Hughes

Death by Force

L. C. Hughes, a 42-year-old male town marshal in the small community of Mill Creek in what was then Indian Territory, spent his final years enforcing the law in a rough frontier town where saloons, horses, and late-night revelry often blurred into trouble. On the night of November 19, 1904, he was on duty as usual, carrying the quiet authority of a man who had made it to middle age in a hard country, and whose job was to keep order among young men who sometimes treated the streets as their playg ...Read More

Town Marshal L. C. Hughes

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