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Zip Zapped!

by | Jan 1, 2004 | Inside History

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August 2, 1895 A mile and a half north of Cainville, Oklahoma, lawman Marion Hildreth and five men surround a homesteader cabin. After eating supper, Ike Black and Dick Yeager (a.k.a. Zip Wyatt) come out of the cabin, arguing over a last chaw of tobacco. Deputy Hildreth shouts, “Throw up your hands!” The outlaws do, “but each hand contains a Winchester or Colt’s revolver.” Hildreth shoots Black in the head, killing him instantly. While the posse shoots at Wyatt,  the outl


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