George Smith, a 25-year-old male deputy sergeant with the Grant County Sheriff�s Office in Oklahoma, walked the streets of Medford in the spring of 1901 as one of the young lawmen responsible for keeping order in the fast-growing town. He had been a deputy for only about three years, unmarried and still at the beginning of his adult life and career, when a single violent encounter on a late May evening brought that future to an abrupt end.
In the last days of May 1901, trouble began outs
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