Frank Canton hid his earlier, sordid life. Frank Canton held a number of honorable positions in his life—lawman, detective, adjutant of the Oklahoma...
Change of Name, Change of Reputation
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Catching a Killer
How Bill Tilghman's hunt for outlaw Bill Doolin made the Oklahoma lawman a legend. When legendary lawman Bill Tilghman was killed in the line of...
Hero of Horsepower
Los Angeles lawman William Hammel tamed one of the West’s wildest towns with hard work and Horseless Carriages. Los Angeles, California. Not...
Doc Holliday Before He Went to Tombstone
New evidence of his life in Prescott reveals the gambler was on the move back and forth to New Mexico before joining the Earps in Cochise County....
George Scarborough Cashes in His Chips
The legendary lawman tried to take on members of the Wild Bunch. George Scarborough was a noted lawman—including a stint as a deputy U.S. marshal....
The Law Comes to Oklahoma
Follow the path of law and order from Fort Smith to Guthrie via Tahlequah and Muskogee. The law came to Indian Terri-tory, which would...
The Corroded Badge
A crooked lawman in New Mexico. Eugenio Alarid was a lawman in Las Vegas, New Mexico in the 1890s. But hidden behind the badge was an outlaw; Alarid...
On Patrol
Five Texas Rangers of Company A, (l.-r) Howard Cragg, Ira Heard, Sam Chessir, J. B. Brooks and Lloyd David, were mounted and ready for action at the...
Sheriff Carl Hayden and the Beardless Boy Bandits
Most of the lawmen in the Old West weren't flamboyant, tight-lipped, tight-trousered puppets as portrayed in the movies, nor were they shady...
A Good Deal for Little Wes
An accused killer, freed to become a lawman. Little Wes Hudson (photo) made an unusual deal. Languishing in an Oklahoma jail in 1905—charged with...
The Seminole Burnings
Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman's Courageous Work was the Greatest of His Legendary Career. The largest and most sensational criminal trial that...
Battle of the Plaza
Bat Masterson vs. Peacock & Updegraff Things Go Lickety-Bang! Bullets Careen into the Long Branch Traveling mostly by rail, Bat Masterson...