Deputy Sheriff Bud Ballew’s district near Ardmore, Oklahoma, in the first two decades of the 20th century bristled with restless oil boomtowns. Shootings regularly erupted in the area, but Ballew met the shootists head-on with his own violent and unruly personality. He played for keeps, putting seven opponents in their graves before he met his
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