Physical location
Betty June Starr Whelan Cherokee Collection, MS-188
MS188-03-06: Oklahoma Materials & Misc.
Page 1.10*
Betty June Starr Whelan Cherokee Collection, MS-188
MS188-03-06: Oklahoma Materials & Misc.
Page 1.10*
- Material type
- Article
- Date
- 1972
- Description
- A continuation of the 'The Blood of a Hundred Men!' article from 1.9. After the signing of the treaty, they Treaty Party moves to the Flint District of Oklahoma, to be followed two years later by the forced removal of the Ros Faction from the Old Cherokee Nation in a migration now known as the Trail of Tears. Power clashes ensue and the Ross Faction slaughters the laders of the Treaty Party. Tom Starr murders David Buffington and later recounts it to Floyd Starr. James Starr and Buck Starr are killed by a mob of 32 men, Tom later admitts to killing all the men who had killed his father except those who dies before he could get to them. Tom was pursued by CHerokee Nation police but evaded capture by going back and forth between Arizona and the Nation. Tom often hid in caves and watched the police, even going do far as to play practical jokes on them when he could. Tom engaged in his pursuit f justie for a time with all of his brothers but remained the ony one by the end of it.
- Author or creator
- Helen Starr Thrasher
- Publication or source
- True West
- Subjects and names
- Buffington, Treaty Party, Flint District, Cherokee Nation, Adair County, Oklahoma, The Trail of Tears, The Old Cherokee Nation, Old Settlers, Fort Gibson, Major Ridge, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, James Starr, David Buffington, Frank Marrs, Floyd Starr, Buck Starr, The Starr Gang
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