Historic Photos of Oklahoma Lawmen
Oklahoma has a famously violent past and equally famous lawmen who brought peace and order to this once lawless land. Thanks to Oklahoma’s relative youth the exploits of many of these lawmen were caught on camera. Historic Photos of Oklahoma Lawmen presents the many faces and phases of law enforcement in Oklahoma throughout its early history up through the 1950s.
Inside are images of the Five Civilized Tribes’ brave Light Horsemen, the scouts and Dog Soldiers of the West, and the federal marshals who ranged Indian Territory in service to the court of Fort Smith’s "hangin’ judge” Isaac Parker. Here, too, are the state’s earliest municipal policemen and county sheriffs who arrived to protect and defend the state’s cities and boom towns.
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Book details
- Author
- Larry Johnson
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 206
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Series
- Historic Photos
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Political Science › Law Enforcement - Topics
- Oklahoma history · law enforcement history · historic photography · frontier lawmen · Indian Territory · county sheriffs · federal marshals · Isaac Parker
- ISBN-13
- 9781596525597
About the author
LARRY JOHNSON holds a master’s in Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma and a history degree from Southern Nazarene University. He serves as a reference librarian for the Metropolitan Library System, where he maintains the Oklahoma Collection and the Oklahoma Images Project.
Johnson is also a contributor to several Oklahoma Centennial Projects.
When he’s not writing, Johnson pursues Strat-o-matic baseball and Boggle, alongside his work preserving Oklahoma history and images through the Metropolitan Library System’s digital and archival collections.
Larry lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and two daughters.