September 11th, 2007

I spent the better part of the day working on the book about the intrepid posse. My focus has been about Marshal Bill Tilghman and his law enforcement techniques. He was interested in learning every aspect of the law and that made him different from Earp, Masterson, and Bassett. Out of the four men he was the only one that made being a police officer a way of life. The other men dabbled in the business, but it was Tilghman’s profession. Bat Masterson said that Tilghman was “the finest of us all.” On more than one occasion, Marshal Tilghman was wrongly accused of a crime. I guess that kind of thing has been going on longer than I even imagined. In Tilghman’s case however, the people who really did commit the crime were made to pay and he was vendicated.