Rufus Buck Gang Blood

RUFUS BUCK GANG BLOOD

The Rufus Buck Gang was a criminal gang of multi-racial, mixed race and Indian Creek Negros operating in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma, Arkansas from 1895 to 1896.

Formed by Rufus Buck, the gang of Lewis Davis, Sam Sampson, Maoma July, and Lucky Davis. Geng began building a small inventory of weapons during his stay in Okmulgee, Oklahoma to kill Deputy U. S. Marshal John Garrett on July 28, 1895, the gang began to remove the many businesses and farms in the area of Fort Smith for two weeks. In one incident, a merchant named Callahan - after being robbed - was offered a chance to escape if he can escape the gang. When the old Callahan had escaped from the band to kill her frustration assistant.

Further attacks against settlers and Creek indiscriminantly, the gang was arrested outside of Muskogee with a combination of power and the Indian police Lawman Light Horse Creek, led by Marshal S. Morton Rutherford, August 10. Although the creek wanted a meeting for the gang who were brought before "Hanging" Judge Isaac Parker in which they were hanged July 1, 1896.

Following the death of Rufus Buck Buck images found in the mother cell together with a poem written on the back.