Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman is a very important book, if only for the fact that it is one of the first, if not the first, biographies of an American Indian law enforcement officer of the Old West.
The book is not about just any American Indian; it chronicles the life of one of the most famous and outstanding lawmen during the frontier era. Authors Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss, through outstanding research, tell the engrossing story of Cherokee lawman Sam Sixkiller. During his career he was a deputy U.S. marshal under Judge Isaac C. Parker, a captain of the U.S. Indian Police and a railroad detective. This is an outstanding book on the Indian Territory and an American frontier hero.
—Art T. Burton, author of Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907
Related Articles
-
One of the greatest peace officers in the wild and wooly history of the Oklahoma…
-
James Gillett had been a noted Texas Ranger for three years when he led a…
-
Sam Mason was a robber and killer in post-Revolution America, roaming the Mississippi and Ohio…
