A.J. Boyd

Town Marshal A. J. Boyd, a 51-year-old male lawman in Langston, Oklahoma Territory, spent the morning of Friday, May 11, 1900, doing what he had been entrusted to do: keeping order in a small, close-knit community. Langston was still young then, a frontier town with its own local newspaper and growing institutions, and Boyd stood at the center of its efforts to police itself. His role as town marshal meant he was the man people expected to step in when tempers rose or disputes threatened to turn ...

Town Marshal A. J. Boyd