Muskogee, Oklahoma’s early years as a frontier outpost were violent, dangerous and unpredictable.
Welcome to Muskogee, the rip-roaring and most dangerous locale west of the Mississippi River. Over the years I have read about Deadwood, Dodge City, El Paso, Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory and Tombstone, Arizona Territory. These towns were wild for four or five years; Muskogee of the Indian Territory was wild for over 40 years. There were over 130 deputy U.S. marshals killed in the Indian and Ok

True West June 2022
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- Western Roundup: June 2022
- What History Has Taught Me: Jeffrey J. Mariotte
- Winchester’s 1876 Mountie Carbine
- Making a Good Impression in the West
- A Flood of Fakes
- Ambush!
- Shooting Back
- Texas’s Tangy Thirst Quencher
- The Grand Old Park
- Red Lodge, Montana
- Wild Bill, Bearded Indians and Banks
- The Wildest Town in Indian Territory
- Truth Be Known
- Deadly Gunplay