I came to the Indian Territory with a white family named Parnell. We came through in a wagon from Texas and I helped Mr. Parnell move to the Indian Territory. He gave me fifty cents a day and my board.
But what starts a man on the outlaw trail? Some sociologist might argue that it was the fact that Dick Glass was half Creek and half Negro. Maybe he was not welcomed by the Indian, black or white community. This can hardly be true as there were many people who were of this mixture and were solid, upstanding, hard working citizens. Some of the finest lawmen, such as Bass Reeves, of the era were of such ancestry.
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One of the most vicious outlaws who ever hung out in the Arbuckle Mountains was named Dick Glass. He was born of Creek and Negro parents in the Creek Nation. When Glass wasn’t hiding out in the Seminole or Creek Nation, he often took refuge in the large black community that lived on Wild Horse Creek in the area of Ft. Arbuckle.
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