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FORT SMITH, Ark. – The deadliest day in U.S. Marshal Service history took place April 15, 1872, near the town of Christie in Adair County, which was located in the Cherokee Nation’s Goingsnake District. The gunfight between a marshal posse and CN citizens took place at a schoolhouse being used as a courthouse to try the case of CN citizen Ezekial “Zeke” Proctor.  “This is definitely one of the stories the museum wants to tell…not just from the marshal’s side of it but from the Cherokee Nation’s side of it because we really want to find the whats and ...

FORT SMITH, Ark. – The deadliest day in U.S. Marshal Service history took place April 15, 1872, near the town of Christie in Adair County, which was located in the Cherokee Nation’s Goingsnake District. The gunfight between a marshal posse and CN citizens took place at a schoolhouse being used as a courthouse to try the case of CN citizen Ezekial “Zeke” Proctor.  ‘Tragedy at Goingsnake’ occurred 149 years ago “This is definitely one of the stories the museum wants to tell…not just from the marshal’s side of it but from the Cherokee Nation’s...

The Truth About Wild West Gunfights Shutterstock By Joseph A. Williams/Jan. 22, 2021 11:53 am EDT Shootouts in the Wild West are, in the popular imagination, full of stereotypes. Many movie-goers have seen Clint Eastwood as a lone drifter coming to mete out justice through the barrel of a gun or an all star team of gunslingers defending a village ravaged by bandits. The Wild West, and in particular its shootouts, are engraved into popular culture. But are these shootouts true? The violence of Wild West shootouts has many surprising historic kernels of truth. Where it differs ...