The Lighthorsemen Author:Bill Burchardt Johnson Lott was a Lighthorseman, one of that select band recruited from the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes to police the territory that would come to be called Oklahoma. Their tasks were difficult and often dangerous, from ridding the Indian camps of whiskey to chasing white squatters off tribal land. There weren't many Lighthorsemen,... more » but they were wily, courageous men who rode proud in the saddle and feared no one. They did their duty well.....« less