Death of a Lawman

The murder of Sam Sixkiller.

December 24, 1886. Sam Sixkiller–one of the best and most respected Indian lawmen of the West–is gunned down. On Christmas Eve, he and his family are in Muskogee, heading to worship. He stops at a drugstore for headache medicine. As he leaves, he is confronted by drunken hardcases Dick Vann and Alf Cunningham. They’ve had previous run-ins with Sixkiller, and they hate lawmen in general. They open up on the captain, who is disarmed. He takes five bullets to the chest and face and dies where he falls. He has one of the largest funerals in territory history.