“They came out of the gully on the jump.” September 1, 1893 Three covered wagons full of federal marshals approach the outlaw village of Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory.Nobody in town pays much attention because, as Doc Pickering later put it, “there was hundreds of Boomers moving the same way.” One of the wagons stops in Pickering’s Grove. Bitter Creek Newcomb spots them and mounts his horse at Wagner’s blacksmith shop where he had a horseshoe tightened. He heads up Ash Street to inv


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