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William Matthew "Bill" Tilghman Jr. (July 4, 1854 – November 1, 1924) was a career lawman, gunfighter, and politician in Kansas and Oklahoma during the late 19th century. Tilghman was a Dodge City city marshal in the early 1880s and played a role in the Kansas County Seat Wars. In 1889 he moved to Oklahoma where he acquired several properties during a series of land rushes. While serving as a Deputy U.S. Marshal in Oklahoma, he gained recognition for capturing the notorious outlaw Bill Doolin and helping to track and kill the other members of Doolin's gang, which made him famous as one of Oklahoma's "Three Guardsmen".
Tilghman never achieved the household-word status of his close friends Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson but nevertheless remains a well-known figure of the American Old West. His memoirs were made into a 1915 film that he directed and starred in as himself. Tilghman died in 1924 at the age of 70 after being shot and killed by a corrupt prohibition agent on the streets of Cromwell, Oklahoma. Much of the fame that he has since achieved has been attributed to the efforts of his second wife, who published his biography in 1949.
Tilghman never achieved the household-word status of his close friends Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson but nevertheless remains a well-known figure of the American Old West. His memoirs were made into a 1915 film that he directed and starred in as himself. Tilghman died in 1924 at the age of 70 after being shot and killed by a corrupt prohibition agent on the streets of Cromwell, Oklahoma. Much of the fame that he has since achieved has been attributed to the efforts of his second wife, who published his biography in 1949.
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Fact-based bio of early film director-producer, Bill Tilghman (Sam Elliott). Tighman was a real life cowboy, who rode with the Earps & faced down countless bad
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that July 4 is the anniversary of the birth of career lawman, gunfighter, and politician in Kansas and Oklahoma during the late 19th century William Matthew "Bill" Tilghman Jr.
Bill Tilghman (1999)
"Fact-based bio of early film director-producer, Bill Tilghman (Sam Elliott). Tighman was a real life cowboy, who rode with the Earps & faced down countless bad"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Swcs597kA0
Background from
"TILGHMAN, WILLIAM MATTHEW, JR. (1854–1924).
William M. "Bill" Tilghman, Jr., was born July 4, 1854, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Two years later the family moved to a Kansas farm. By age sixteen he hunted buffalo, due to the lucrative market for buffalo hides. Operating from Fort Dodge, Kansas, Tilghman scouted for the army until 1877, when he was appointed deputy sheriff of Ford County, Kansas. That same year he married a widow, Flora Kendall, and began a small ranch on a homestead near Dodge City. Through the years he operated two saloons in Dodge, and in 1884 he was appointed city marshal, ably serving the famous cattle town for two years. In 1888 Tilghman became involved with the Wichita County, Kansas, seat war, killing Ed Prather on the Fourth of July in a saloon fight. The following year Tilghman was hired by one of the factions in the Gray County, Kansas, seat war.
Attracted to the Land Run of 1889, Tilghman located a claim near Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. After the Cherokee Outlet Opening in 1893, while he was working as a peace officer in the boomtown of Perry, he killed a troublemaker called Crescent Sam on September 17, 1893. During this period Tilghman moved his wife and four children to a stud farm near Chandler. Flora Tilghman contracted tuberculosis and in 1897 returned to her mother's Dodge City home and filed for divorce. Flora died in 1900. In 1903, at age forty-eight, Tilghman married a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher, Zoe Agnes Stratton, who later wrote her husband's biography. The Tilghmans had three children.
During the 1890s Tilghman was a deputy U.S. marshal and skilled man hunter, collecting significant amounts of reward money. Deputy Marshal Tilghman was one of Oklahoma's famous "Three Guardsmen," including fellow man hunter Heck Thomas and the somewhat overrated Chris Madsen. In 1895 Tilghman and Thomas wounded and captured fugitive "Little Dick" Raidler. The following year Tilghman effected the solitary arrest of notorious gang leader Bill Doolin. Doolin soon escaped from jail but was tracked down and killed by a posse led by Thomas. In 1900 and 1902 Tilghman was elected as Lincoln County sheriff.
In 1910 Tilghman was elected to the state senate but resigned in 1911 to serve as Oklahoma City's police chief. Beginning in 1908 he helped film four Western motion pictures, including The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, released in 1915. Tilghman exhibited that film for several years.
In August 1924, at age seventy, he was persuaded to leave retirement and became city marshal at Cromwell, a booming Oklahoma oil town. On November 1, 1924, a drunken prohibition agent, Wiley Lynn, shot Tilghman twice with a hideout gun, killing the last great peace officer of the Old West. The murderer won acquittal, only to be shot and killed in 1932. Zoe Tilghman bitterly observed, "No jury on earth can acquit him now."
Bill O'Neal"
2. Background from thewildwest.org/cowboys/wildwestoutlawsandlawmen/192-billtilghman
"Bill Tilghman was one of the most famous Lawmen of the Old West, but he didn't start out that way, as in his early days he was arrested for theft, but he was appointed city Marshal of Dodge, in 1884 and wore a badge made of two $20 gold pieces.
Tilghman was involved in the capture of Jennie "Little Britches" Stevens, and Cattle Annie McDougal near Pawnee Oklahoma in 1894. It was said that "Little Britches" fired at Tilghman with a Winchester rifle, and he shot back and killed her horse. She is then supposed to have thrown dirt in his face, and bit and scratched him, and tried to pull a pistol on him. Bill finally overpowered her, and gave her a spanking.
Tilghman joined in on the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 and staked a claim around Guthrie, Oklahoma, where he lived for the rest of his life, of course spending the next 20 years "cleaning up" the area including Hell's Half Acre, Perry Oklahoma with two other Lawmen, Chris Madsen and Heck Thomas that had 110 Saloons for a population of 25,000 which is one Saloon for about every 225 people. He was elected to the state Senate in Oklahoma, and joined the Oklahoma City Police Force in 1911.
He supervised a movie "The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws" (it was released in 1915). Tilghman retired but was persuaded by the citizens of Cromwell Oklahoma to become their city Marshal, Cromwell was an Oil Boomtown. On November 1, 1924 Tilghman was eating in a restaurant when a shot was fired outside by a drunken probation officer, by the name of Wiley Lynn, who had clashed with Tilghman on other occasions, and as Tilghman led Wiley Lynn toward the jail, the drunk pulled out a small automatic pistol and shot Tilghman, who died 15 minutes later."
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Bill Tilghman (1999)
"Fact-based bio of early film director-producer, Bill Tilghman (Sam Elliott). Tighman was a real life cowboy, who rode with the Earps & faced down countless bad"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Swcs597kA0
Background from
"TILGHMAN, WILLIAM MATTHEW, JR. (1854–1924).
William M. "Bill" Tilghman, Jr., was born July 4, 1854, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Two years later the family moved to a Kansas farm. By age sixteen he hunted buffalo, due to the lucrative market for buffalo hides. Operating from Fort Dodge, Kansas, Tilghman scouted for the army until 1877, when he was appointed deputy sheriff of Ford County, Kansas. That same year he married a widow, Flora Kendall, and began a small ranch on a homestead near Dodge City. Through the years he operated two saloons in Dodge, and in 1884 he was appointed city marshal, ably serving the famous cattle town for two years. In 1888 Tilghman became involved with the Wichita County, Kansas, seat war, killing Ed Prather on the Fourth of July in a saloon fight. The following year Tilghman was hired by one of the factions in the Gray County, Kansas, seat war.
Attracted to the Land Run of 1889, Tilghman located a claim near Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. After the Cherokee Outlet Opening in 1893, while he was working as a peace officer in the boomtown of Perry, he killed a troublemaker called Crescent Sam on September 17, 1893. During this period Tilghman moved his wife and four children to a stud farm near Chandler. Flora Tilghman contracted tuberculosis and in 1897 returned to her mother's Dodge City home and filed for divorce. Flora died in 1900. In 1903, at age forty-eight, Tilghman married a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher, Zoe Agnes Stratton, who later wrote her husband's biography. The Tilghmans had three children.
During the 1890s Tilghman was a deputy U.S. marshal and skilled man hunter, collecting significant amounts of reward money. Deputy Marshal Tilghman was one of Oklahoma's famous "Three Guardsmen," including fellow man hunter Heck Thomas and the somewhat overrated Chris Madsen. In 1895 Tilghman and Thomas wounded and captured fugitive "Little Dick" Raidler. The following year Tilghman effected the solitary arrest of notorious gang leader Bill Doolin. Doolin soon escaped from jail but was tracked down and killed by a posse led by Thomas. In 1900 and 1902 Tilghman was elected as Lincoln County sheriff.
In 1910 Tilghman was elected to the state senate but resigned in 1911 to serve as Oklahoma City's police chief. Beginning in 1908 he helped film four Western motion pictures, including The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, released in 1915. Tilghman exhibited that film for several years.
In August 1924, at age seventy, he was persuaded to leave retirement and became city marshal at Cromwell, a booming Oklahoma oil town. On November 1, 1924, a drunken prohibition agent, Wiley Lynn, shot Tilghman twice with a hideout gun, killing the last great peace officer of the Old West. The murderer won acquittal, only to be shot and killed in 1932. Zoe Tilghman bitterly observed, "No jury on earth can acquit him now."
Bill O'Neal"
2. Background from thewildwest.org/cowboys/wildwestoutlawsandlawmen/192-billtilghman
"Bill Tilghman was one of the most famous Lawmen of the Old West, but he didn't start out that way, as in his early days he was arrested for theft, but he was appointed city Marshal of Dodge, in 1884 and wore a badge made of two $20 gold pieces.
Tilghman was involved in the capture of Jennie "Little Britches" Stevens, and Cattle Annie McDougal near Pawnee Oklahoma in 1894. It was said that "Little Britches" fired at Tilghman with a Winchester rifle, and he shot back and killed her horse. She is then supposed to have thrown dirt in his face, and bit and scratched him, and tried to pull a pistol on him. Bill finally overpowered her, and gave her a spanking.
Tilghman joined in on the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 and staked a claim around Guthrie, Oklahoma, where he lived for the rest of his life, of course spending the next 20 years "cleaning up" the area including Hell's Half Acre, Perry Oklahoma with two other Lawmen, Chris Madsen and Heck Thomas that had 110 Saloons for a population of 25,000 which is one Saloon for about every 225 people. He was elected to the state Senate in Oklahoma, and joined the Oklahoma City Police Force in 1911.
He supervised a movie "The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws" (it was released in 1915). Tilghman retired but was persuaded by the citizens of Cromwell Oklahoma to become their city Marshal, Cromwell was an Oil Boomtown. On November 1, 1924 Tilghman was eating in a restaurant when a shot was fired outside by a drunken probation officer, by the name of Wiley Lynn, who had clashed with Tilghman on other occasions, and as Tilghman led Wiley Lynn toward the jail, the drunk pulled out a small automatic pistol and shot Tilghman, who died 15 minutes later."
FYI LTC Wayne Brandon LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Robert Thornton CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones SSG Donald H "Don" Bates PO3 William Hetrick PO3 Lynn Spalding SPC Mark Huddleston SGT Rick Colburn CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke SP5 Jeannie Carle SCPO Morris Ramsey Sgt Albert Castro Cynthia Croft
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