Black, Red, and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territories Ornament Wood burned and painted wood

Wood burned and painted wood panel by Cherokee artist Jeffrey Watt

Grant Foreman presents John Howard Payne's first-hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith

and thus it became known as the French and Indian War

wherever a tear fell on the ground a corn stalk-like plant sprouted and the seeds were in the shape of tears

black men who rode for Judge Parker

Black, Red, and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territories Ornament Wood burned and painted woodCherokee Bill, one of the meanest of the mean, was hanged for the murder of thirteen men by the time he was twenty. Author Art Burton recounts the exploits of Cherokee Bill and other black and Indian outlaws and lawmen in Black, Red, and Deadly, the story of law and lawlessness in the Indian Territory. He also tells of Dick Glass, the most notorious African American outlaw during the 1880s; Ned Christi, the most feared Indian outlaw of his time; the