Lindsey Graham
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15,077 appearances
196 recordings
52 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Lindsey Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Nevertheless, he fearlessly patrolled the corner.
This was one of the most notorious border towns, just across from the Seminole and Chickasaw nations, where the ground was often littered with empty cartridge shells.
On one occasion, Reeves killed a young gunslinger who challenged him to a saloon fight and wounded Reeves in the leg.
When a doctor arrived on the scene and asked Reeves what had happened, Reeves replied, he was real fast, but like a lot of them, he couldn't shoot both fast and straight.
In this period of change, as a black marshal pursuing white outlaws, Reeves was forced to carefully navigate the racial dynamics that shaped every arrest and confrontation.
During one tense encounter inside a Tulsa general store, Reeves persuaded an armed white criminal to surrender his guns without bloodshed by calmly telling him, You are a white man, and I am a Negro.
White men do not like to give up to a Negro.
Then, rather than take the guns himself, Reeves asked the man to give them up to the white owner of the general store, declaring, when you're ready to leave town, he'll give them back to you.
The outlaw complied.
During this period, using tactics that he'd honed over more than a decade as a marshal, Reeves captured some of the most notorious outlaws in the region.
Stories of his exploits spread throughout the frontier.
And in June 1891, a Texas newspaper editor declared him the most successful marshal that rides in the Indian country.
While the editor also included racist descriptions of his appearance, he affirmed that Reeves was "...a holy terror to the lawless characters in the West."
In the late 1890s, Reeves was reassigned to the Northern District of Indian Territory, and he and his family moved to the town of Muskogee.
As Congress continued breaking up Indian Territory, non-native settlements surged and Reeves' duties shifted.
He spent less time chasing fugitives across the prairie and more time policing rapidly growing towns where white settlers clashed with black pioneers.
In May 1902, he and a fellow deputy arrested 15 white men and nine black men accused of taking part in a so-called race war in the nearby town of Braggs.
Racial prejudice was an inescapable part of Reeves' job, so whenever he could, he avoided entanglement with white suspects, choosing to focus his efforts on Black and Native American criminals.
He sometimes struggled to find white men to work with him, too, and when he tried to hire one resident as a guard in his posse, the man refused, explaining that he didn't think a white man should work for a Negro.
But in 1902, Reeves was placed in his most painful position yet, when his duty as a lawman collided with his duty as a father.
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