Gunfight at Ingalls

The sun was at mid morning and cast forward the shadows of thirteen deputies standing, and staring into the unknown vigilance of what breaks a man’s bravery into fear. The fear that rushes into the heart of mans adrenalin; the fear that quivers into the thought of uncertainty, reluctance and doubt. Each man holding his own rifle, each man forecasting what might lay ahead, in the town of Ingalls.  Ingalls was a quiet western Oklahoma town in the eastern part of Payne County. The town was first established with a livery stable, saloon, and hotel. And by the winter of 1890 a post office was built.  The citizens of Ingalls were for the most part respectable and hardworking. Some of them settlers had come to Oklahoma to stake a claim along the Cimarron River just on the edge of cowboy flats. Cowboy Flats was well known to the cattle drovers, Indians, outlaws and several military camps. This land was both fertile to the soil and tainted to the soul of both civility and wildness. And at any given moment of time a change from peacefulness could erupt to reckless violence, like a thunderstorm without warning as it rolls across the plains.

• Story written by Mike King
• Narrated by Mike King
• Music Provided by Smart Sound
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