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Lawmen of Oklahoma Autographs (3) c1890-1908 [182517]

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Lawmen of Oklahoma Autographs (3) c1890-1908  [182517]
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A collection of three documents with autographs of Oklahoma law men, E. D. Nix, William Tilghman, and Chris Madsen, c1890s-1908. Included are: 1. Oklahoma Territory receipt signed by U.S. Marshal E.D. Nix. A pre-printed 3" x 8" receipt - no date, but c1890s, stating that the U.S. Marshal for Oklahoma Territory, Everett D. Nix (1881-1946) has certified that a posse was necessary to do execution of warrants. "...the services of the posse comitatus employed by the Deputy were absolutely necessary to the due and proper service and execution of said warrants; and that a posse comitatus could not have been obtained any nearer than the place said posse comitatus was employed." The receipt is signed by "E. D. Nix" and a posse member, "N. Brown," who received $21 for his services. Nix came to Indian Territory in 1889 from Kentucky where he was appointed a U.S. Marshal. Because of the lawlessness in the region, Nix recruited some of the best known lawmen and gunfighters in the region to serve as his deputies - including Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman, Chris Madsen, Frank Canton, Jim Masterson and others. His organizational skills helped compile some 60,000 arrests during his tenure with 150 deputies who worked under him to bring law and order to the Territory. It was Nix who directed the work of deputies who squashed the Dalton Gang, Bill Doolin Gang, Sam Bass and others. 2. Autographed document signed by frontier lawman, "Deputy Wm. Tilghman" and also signed by "Marshal P.S. Nagle," c1897. The document is a U.S. District Court subpoena, partly printed, from Logan County, Oklahoma Territory. It certifies that they have received the subpoena ordering them to summon a Professor Holter of Stillwater, Dr. G. Sutton of Cleveland and Wm. Herod and G.W. George of the Creek Nation to appear before the Court. The subpoena is two sided. William Tilghman (1854-1924) was an American frontiersman born in Ft. Dodge, Iowa. He was an Indian Scout, Buffalo Hunter, deputy sheriff, U.S. Marshal, and Deputy U.S. Marshal from 1891-1910. While serving as a Deputy U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma, he gained recognition for capturing the notorious outlaw Bill Doolin and helping to track and kill the other members of Doolin's gang, which made him famous as one of Oklahoma's "Three Guardsmen". Tilghman died in 1924 at the age of 70 after being shot by a corrupt prohibition agent on the streets of Cromwell, Okla. In 1960, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Patrick S. Nagle was an American political organizer who served as the U.S. Marshal for Oklahoma Territory between 1896 and 1897. 3. A Circuit Court United States Eastern District of Oklahoma U.S. Marshal's Return form, signed by "C. Madsen," Deputy, stating that he was unable to locate a defendant, c1908. Partly pre-printed, two sided. Chris Madsen (1851-1944) was a soldier and a lawman who served in the Danish-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars and in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, before reaching NY in 1876. He was in the Seventh Cavalry, was transferred to the Fifth Cavalry stationed first at Fort Reno, Oklahoma, then Fort Russell, Wyoming. He witnessed Bill Cody's famous fight with Yellow Hand, was said to have helped bury some of Custer's men, and served in various Indian campaigns. In 1891 he became a deputy U.S. marshal out of El Reno, and along with Tilghman and Heck Thomas they became known as the "Three Guardsmen." He took part in many pursuits and arrests. Oklahoma