Was Bill Tilghman honest?
Terrel Shields — Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
Bill Tilghman was, at best, a flawed character.
Zoe Tilghman’s biography of her husband is the source of most of the deputy U.S. marshal’s legend—but that book doesn’t match historical records.
Bill was accused of graft and corruption, sold whiskey to Indians and was arrested multiple times for running a bawdy house and gambling while serving as sheriff of Lincoln County in Oklahoma, writes Nancy B. Samuelson in
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