Louis Falkenburg, a 38-year-old male deputy sheriff from Weston County, Wyoming, was killed on October 31, 1903, in the violent confrontation later remembered as the fight or Battle of Lightning Creek. What began as a law-enforcement pursuit over reports that Oglala Sioux hunters had been taking antelope and were accused of killing livestock turned into a tense chase across the prairie. Falkenburg rode with Sheriff William “Billy” Miller and a posse that had first tried to make arrests days
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