The Killing of Ned Christie: Cherokee Outlaw
by Bonnie Stahlman Speer, Gregory Lalire, Phillip W. Steele
Category: Fiction

More than one hundred years have passed since Ned Christie was shot by deputies in his log fort east of Tahlequah. A former Cherokee legislator, he was accused of killing a U.S. Deputy Marshal. He refused to give himself up and stand trial for fear he would not receive a fair trial in Issac "Hanging Judge" Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Soon he became known as one of the most notorious outlaws in Indian Territory. Finally he was blasted out of his home with dynamite and killed. Was he guilty of the crimes of which he was accused? Today, the legends of his exploits still ring in the Cherokee hills he called home. Book jacket.