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 James Hickok 1837-1876 |
KANSAS LAWMAN -
Wild Bill Hickok Lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, and professional gambler. Between his law enforcement duties and gambling, which easily overlapped, Hickok was involved in several notable shootouts, and was ultimately killed while playing poker in a South Dakota saloon. |
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KANSAS LAWMAN -
Wyatt Earp Wichita Peace officer, Dodge City Marshal. Best known for being involved in the shootout at the O.K. Corral that inspired numerous movies including Tombstone. |
 Bat Masterson 1853-1921 |
KANSAS
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Bat Masterson In 1877, he joined his brothers in Dodge City, Kansas. Jim was a partner in a saloon there and Ed was a deputy sheriff. Soon after his arrival, Masterson came into conflict with the local marshal over the treatment of a man being arrested. He was jailed and fined, although his fine was later returned by the city council. He served as a sheriff's deputy alongside Wyatt Earp, and within a few months he was elected county sheriff of Ford County, Kansas. |
 Pat Garrett 1850-1908 |
The Man who caught
Billy the Kid |
 Frank Hamer 1884-1955 |
 The
Man who caught Bonnie & ClydeTexas Ranger, perhaps most well known for his involvement with the tracking down the outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. In 1934 the retired Capt. Hamer was hired as a Special Investigator for the Texas prison system to track down gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. |
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The man the movie WALKING TALL
was about. Pusser is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, gambling and other vices on the Mississippi-Tennessee border. His story has directly inspired the movies "Walking Tall". Already a local hero, Pusser's "war" on the "State Line Mob" was brought to national prominence when his wife, Pauline, was killed on August 12, 1967 in an assassination attempt meant for him (ordered by Carl Douglas "Towhead" White). On April 5th, 1969, White was killed by Berry "Junior" Smith, who also claimed it was in self defense. Pusser named Kirksy McCord Nix Jr. as the contractor of his wife's killers, but Nix Jr. was never charged. In 1970, Pusser relinquished his role as sheriff due to a law limiting the number of terms a sheriff could serve at that time. Pusser was elected again as constable by a majority of voters who wrote his name on their ballots. He served in that position for 2 more years.
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The Man who caught
Lee Harvey Oswald McDonald
arrived at Dallas' Dealey Plaza moments after Kennedy was
shot on November 22, 1963. He searched the Texas Theater and
helped make the historic arrest, grappling with the man
suspected of shooting Kennedy after Oswald pulled a gun. In
a memoir, "The Arrest and Capture of Lee Harvey Oswald,"
McDonald recalled going to the rear of the theater after
police received a tip that a suspicious man had entered
without paying. "As I peeked through the heavy curtains out
into the audience (fellow officer Johnny Brewer), at my
shoulder, pointed out the suspect," McDonald wrote. As the
two officers confronted Oswald, the suspect said, "Well,
it's all over now." As police tried to search and cuff him,
Oswald pulled a pistol and tried to fire, but McDonald
grabbed the weapon and moved to block the mechanism with his
hand. "I could feel the hammer glide under my hand,"
McDonald wrote. "The returning hammer made a dull, audible
snapping sound as the firing pin struck the flesh of my left
hand, between the thumb and forefinger. "Bracing myself, I
stood rigid, waiting for the bullet to penetrate my
chest."But the bullet didn't fire. McDonald jerked the
weapon from Oswald, fell on top of him and finally subdued
him. |
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The Man who caught
Timothy McVeigh
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 Sheriff Joe Arpaio |
Known as the
toughest sheriff in America Sheriff Joe became well known when he built a Tent City, and brought back chain gangs, Sheriffs Posse, along with a number of other programs. \ |
