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Notorious Cherokee Outlaw NED CHRISTIE Killed, A Companion Burned, Another Caught by U.S. Marshals
Notorious Cherokee Outlaw Ned Christie Killed, One Companion Burned, Another Caught by U.S. Marshals. Did they kill the wrong man? You decide.
The image of Ned Christie as a psychopathic outlaw who had to be killed by masculine lawmen may have been fabricated, but it has never gone out of style. No detail about Christie was beyond exaggerating. In 1967, C.H. McKennon penned the energetic, but mostly contrived Iron Men: A Saga of the Deputy United States Marshals Who Rode the Indian Territory, which described Christie as being at least 6-foot-4. In reality, Christie was at the most 5-foot-8. A year after Christie’s death, his son James was found dead, nearly decapitated, on the side of a road. Christie’s widow, Nuci Goie, married Ned’s brother Jack and after her death and the deaths of her children they were buried in the Jack Christie family cemetery. That land was sold to a white family, who later bulldozed all the Christies’ caskets, bodies, and headstones into a lake.