Historic Oklahoma People

People at the Okalhoma City Streetcar Terminal by Russell Lee, 1939.

People at the Oklahoma City Streetcar Terminal by Russell Lee, 1939.

 

Bass Reeves, U.S. Deputy Marshal

Bass Reeves, U.S. Deputy Marshal

John R. Abernathy – Wolf Catcher & Lawman

Adoeette, aka: Big Tree Kiowa Warrior

Peter Anderson – Killed in the Line of Duty

Orr W. Annis – Oklahoma Lawman

William “Bill” Arnold – Posseman Killed

Charles Askins – Gunfighter Legend

Lee Atkins – Killed Before Duty

Willard R. Ayers – Deputy Marshal Down

Bud Ballew – Gunfighter & Lawman of Oklahoma

Arthur R. “Doc” Barker – Killed at Alcatraz

Bennie “Blanche” Barrow – Member of the Barrow Gang

George Bent and his first wife, Magpie.

George Bent and his first wife, Magpie.

George Bent – Cheyenne-American Soldier & Leader

Chief Black Kettle – A Peaceful Leader

Dow Braziel – U.S. Deputy Marshal and IRS Officer

Eli Hickman “Heck” Bruner – Fearless U.S. Deputy Marshal

Charles “Charlie” Bryant – Trigger Finger Outlaw

Sheppard Busby – Marshal Hanged

Edward “Ned” Bushyhead – Cherokee Lawman

Hess Bussey – U. S. Deputy Marshal

Rufus Cannon – Important African-American U.S. Deputy Marshal

Frank Canton – Cowboy, Outlaw, and Lawman

William Carr – Heroic Deputy or Outlaw?

Nate Champion – Killed in the Johnson County War

Jesse Chisholm, Trail Blazer

Jesse Chisholm, Trail Blazer

Jesse Chisholm – Blazing a Trail

Robert M. Cox – Deputy Marshal Killed

Everett Creekmore – Lawman Turned Outlaw

The Dalton Brothers – Lawmen & Outlaws

Billy Dixon – Texas Plains Pioneer

Fred Dodge – Undercover Detective

Frank B. “Pistol Pete” Eaton – Fastest Draw in Indian Territory

Buck Garrett – Gunfighter and Lawman

John H. Good – Gunfighting Rancher

Raymond Hamilton – Hanging With the Barrow Gang

John Reynolds Hughes – Texas Ranger

George “Machine Gun” Kelly – Prohibition Era Outlaw

Matthew Kimes – Leader of the Kimes Gang

Lady Marshals of Indian Territory

Buckskin Frank Leslie – Another Tombstone Rowdy

Lighthorse Police in Oklahoma

Gordon W. "Pawnee Bill" Lillie

Gordon W. “Pawnee Bill” Lillie

Pawnee Bill Lillie – Another Wild West Showman

Christian “Chris” Madsen – One of the Three Guardsmen

James “Jim” Masterson – Dodge City Marshal

Edward P. McCabe – Nicodemus Colonizer & State Auditor

Mike Meagher – Kansas & Oklahoma Lawman

Henry Methvin – Barrow Gang Member

James Miller – Hired Killer of the Old West

U.S. Marshal Evett Nix – Bringing Down the Doolin-Dalton Gang

Robert Olinger – Killer With a Badge

Joseph “Joe” W. Ventioner – U.S. Deputy Marshal

Commodore Perry Owens – Gunfighting Lawman

William “Bill” Pickett – Texas Bull-Dogger

Bass Reeves – Black Hero Marshal

Lafayette Augustus Shadley – Lawman

Ed Short – Cowboy & Lawman

Sam Sixkiller – Captain of the Indian Police

John Simpson Smith – Superior Frontiersman

Heck Thomas – Tough Law in Indian Territory

Bill Tilghman

Bill Tilghman

Bill Tilghman – Thirty Years a Lawman

Fred Waite – Chickasaw Outlaw Turned Politician

© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.

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Oklahoma – Indian Territory

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