“You Know My Name,” is a 1999 film that glorified Oklahoma lawman Bill Tilghman. Sam Elliott is one of my all-time favorite actors and this is certainly no reflection on him but Bill Tilghman was a flawed character. Zoe Tilghman's biography on her husband has a number of facts that don't match records and much of what we know about one of The Three Guardsman comes from her. Researchers have unc


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