Complex sentence: Laura and Lawrence were taken six miles to Yarbrough's Crossing on the North Canadian River to the west of Okemah, where they were gagged with tow sacks and hanged from a bridge on the road to Schoolton.
Split into simpler sentences: Laura and Lawrence were taken six miles to Yarbrough's Crossing on the North Canadian River to the west of Okemah. There they were gagged with tow sacks and hanged from a bridge on the road to Schoolton.