The Modern Era on US Soil

Oklahoma

2 Depression-Era Outlaw Gangs engagements documented in Oklahoma, drawn from the Wikipedia and Wikidata record and the Chronological List of Battles.

The USS Arizona burning after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. US National Archives (NARA 195617). Public domain.
2
Engagements
1926 to 1927
Years

Where these engagements were fought

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Red markers are surveyed battlefields with a mapped boundary; navy markers are point-located engagements. Select a marker to open its page.

Notable engagements

EngagementYearForces or losses
Sallisaw shootout; killing of Deputy Perry Chuculate1926Deputy Chuculate killed; Kimes captured
Beggs bank robbery; killing of Marshal W.J. McAnally1927Marshal McAnally killed; gang broken

By conflict

Depression-Era Outlaw Gangs
The running gun battles between the roving outlaw gangs and federal agents in the early 1930s: the Barrow Gang at Joplin and Dexfield Park, the Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia and Barrington, the Barker-Karpis gang, Pretty Boy Floyd and the Kimes-Terrill gang.
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Engagements and locations are compiled from published sources: Chronicling America (Library of Congress historic newspapers) (public domain).