In the early winter of 1900, the community of San-bois, then a part of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory, was rocked by the tragic death of its sheriff, Jefferson Davis Surratt. A man of Choctaw heritage, the 39-year-old lawman was a respected figure in the often-turbulent territory that would later become Haskell County, Oklahoma. His life was cut short not by a hardened outlaw, but by one of his own men in a grim turn of events.
The fatal encounter began on December 3, 1900, when S
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