“For several days hundreds of whites, Indians and negroes had scoured the country in small bands determined to run down the inhuman wretches…”
– The Tecumseh Republican, Oklahoma, August 30, 1895
Article about the capture of the Rufus Buck gang – led by 18-year old Rufus Buck, son of a black mother and Creek father – by a “curious mob.” The gang’s infamous spree of killing, rape and fuckery across Oklahoma was supposed to, in Buck’s mind, trigger an Indian uprising that would expel the illegal white majority and reclaim the Territory for its native people.
(l-r) Maoma July (Creek), Sam Sampson (Creek), Rufus Buck (Creek/Black, Luckey Davis (Creek/Black), Lewis Davis (Creek)