Ezekiel Proctor was a Cherokee and proud of it.
“Zeke” had walked the Trail of Tears from Georgia to the Indian Territory when he was a seven-year-old boy in 1838. He clung to the Cherokee language, culture and customs. He dealt with white folks, but he didn’t have much use for them.
In 1872, the prosperous farmer and local lawman had a beef with one specific white man: his brother-in-law, Jim Kesterson. Stories circulated of bad blood between them, a situation made worse when Ke
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