If there was anything unforgiving in the old west, it was cattle stealing. (Unless you were one of the big outfits that could get away with anything, but that's another story.) And if you were a Texas sheriff and exposed as a dirty rustler, well, things were going to go from bad to worse for you.
But to start at the beginning, John M. Larn was elected Shackelford County Sheriff in Texas in April of 1876. Didn
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