John Poe

Death by Force

On September 25, 1901, 57-year-old Deputy U.S. Marshal John Poe, a male lawman serving in the Indian Territory but based around Comanche, Oklahoma, stepped into what should have been a routine task: quieting a disturbance aboard a Frisco Railroad train. The former buffalo-hunter country of southern Indian Territory had become a corridor for trouble, and Poe, appointed a United States deputy marshal in 1900 while living in Mill Creek in Johnston County, was one of the men tasked with imposing ord ...Read More

Deputy U.S. Marshal John Poe