George Smith

George Smith, a 25-year-old male deputy sergeant with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office in Oklahoma, walked the streets of Medford in the spring of 1901 as one of the young lawmen responsible for keeping order in the fast-growing town. He had been a deputy for only about three years, unmarried and still at the beginning of his adult life and career, when a single violent encounter on a late May evening brought that future to an abrupt end.

In the last days of May 1901, trouble began ou ...

Deputy Sergeant George Smith