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Wes Vann, Jesse Vann and Phillip Daniels were part of a group of Cherokee Freedmen returning from Kansas to the Cherokee Nation after the Civil War when they were attacked by a band of former Confederate bushwhackers led by Kinch West near the residence of Robert B. Knight along the military road near where it crossed Horse Creek. These three men died in what became known as the Horse Creek Fight. Tobias 'Tobe' Bean was also wounded but survived. The motive for the attack is not entirely clear, and only testimony by Mary Brown many years later meant to establish when Tobe Bean and Dennis Vann, among others, returned to the Cherokee Nation identified the attackers.

The Cherokee Freedmen carrying the surname Vann had been owned by the Vann family, including Aunt Katie Williams, the daughter of Avery Vann who came west to the Indian Territory in 1837. The three men killed in the Horse Creek Fight were buried on the land where Aunt Katie Williams lived along Spring Creek in what was at that time the Saline District of the Cherokee Nation.

Wes Vann, Jesse Vann and Phillip Daniels were part of a group of Cherokee Freedmen returning from Kansas to the Cherokee Nation after the Civil War when they were attacked by a band of former Confederate bushwhackers led by Kinch West near the residence of Robert B. Knight along the military road near where it crossed Horse Creek. These three men died in what became known as the Horse Creek Fight. Tobias 'Tobe' Bean was also wounded but survived. The motive for the attack is not entirely clear, and only testimony by Mary Brown many years later meant to establish when Tobe Bean and Dennis Vann, among others, returned to the Cherokee Nation identified the attackers.

The Cherokee Freedmen carrying the surname Vann had been owned by the Vann family, including Aunt Katie Williams, the daughter of Avery Vann who came west to the Indian Territory in 1837. The three men killed in the Horse Creek Fight were buried on the land where Aunt Katie Williams lived along Spring Creek in what was at that time the Saline District of the Cherokee Nation.

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