Blog Category - Restaurants & Local Dining

Oct 25, 2026 • 7 min read

P.O. Sam's BBQ: The Cadillac Story Behind Colbert, Oklahoma's Legendary Pitmaster

Ask anybody who grew up around Colbert, OK about barbecue and you'll probably hear two words before anything else: P.O. Sam. 🔥 From 1952 until his passing in 1985, Samuel A. Flagg ran Po' Sam's Bar-B-Que about a mile and a half north of the Red River, and his spicy brown gravy sauce became one of the most loved, most argued-about, and most imitated flavors in all of Texoma. This is the story of