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  2. The Rufus Buck Gang was an outlaw Native American gang whose members were Creek Indian and African American. Their crime spree took place in the Indian Territory of the Arkansas – Oklahoma area from July 30, 1895, through August 4, 1895.

  3. Jan 12, 2023 · Who Was the Rufus Buck Gang? The Rufus Buck Gang was a group of African American, Mixed race (Black and Indian), and Native American outlaws who operated in the Indian Territory, also known as Oklahoma. The gang consisted of five members: Rufus Buck, Lewis Davis, Sam Sampson, Maoma July, and Lucky Davis. Rufus Buck was the leader of the gang ...

    • Nat Love. Riding at the center of The Harder They Fall is the outlaw Nat Love, played with a smoldering intensity by Jonathan Majors. Majors’ Love engages in petty thievery and seeks revenge on a man who killed his parents and then branded him when he was a child.
    • Bass Reeves. In The Harder They Fall, Majors’ Nat Love finds an unlikely ally in the U.S. deputy marshal Bass Reeves (Delroy Lindo), who helps him hunt down Rufus Buck.
    • Rufus Buck. Idris Elba’s Rufus Buck walks a path not unsimilar to one of his most famous characters: The Wire’s Stringer Bell. Like Bell, Buck is a lifelong criminal hardened by systemic injustice and racism.
    • Cherokee Bill. While Cherokee Bill, portrayed in the film by Lakeith Stanfield, did not run in Rufus Buck’s gang as The Harder They Fall depicts, he was a feared criminal in his own right.
  4. Jan 4, 2022 · The Rufus Buck Gang was an outlaw gang whose members included African Americans, mixed-race (black and Indian), and Native American teenagers and young adults from the Creek (Muscogee) Nation.

  5. The gang’s leader, Rufus Buck, the 18-year-old son of a black mother and Creek father, burned with a zealot’s passion: he dreamed that his gang’s spree would trigger an Indian uprising that would expel the illegal white majority and reclaim the whole Territory for its native people.

  6. The Rufus Buck Gang, led by Rufus Buck, was a Creek Indian gang that also included Sam Sampson, Maoma July, and brothers Lewis and Lucky Davis. All of them had been apprehended on minor offenses and served time in the Fort Smith, Arkansas jail before going on their crime spree in the summer of 1895.

  7. Nov 4, 2021 · The Rufus Buck Gang is a group of outlaws that assist the film’s central antagonist, Rufus Buck. After his arrest by Marshall Bass Reeves, the gang begins to splinter, and their stronghold, the town of Redwood, is taken over by a former gang member who installs himself as the Sheriff.