Ned Christie’s cabin was under attack. More than two dozen lawmen surrounded the Indian Territory home in November 1892. They were trying to capture or kill Christie—a Cherokee who was wanted in connection with the killing of a U.S. deputy marshal five years earlier. They’d been trying to force him from this home for more than three years. And for three years, they had failed. This time was no different. The cabin wouldn’t yield. Bullets bounced off. Cannonballs failed to knock hole
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