THE LEFLORE COUNTY BIGFOOT WAR OF 1855: When Monsters Attacked the Choctaw Nation

THE LEFLORE COUNTY BIGFOOT WAR OF 1855: When Monsters Attacked the Choctaw Nation

In 1855, when women and children began disappearing from Choctaw settlements in Oklahoma, a band of thirty warriors led by Joshua LeFlore rode out to hunt down the kidnappers. What they discovered at that earthen mound deep in the wilderness wasn’t human—and the battle that followed would be buried from official history for over a century.