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William Tilghman
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William Matthew Tilghman Jr. was a career lawman, gunfighter, and politician in Kansas and Oklahoma during the late 19th century. Tilghman was a Dodge City, Kansas City Marshal in the early 1880s and played a role in the Kansas County Seat Wars. In 1889 he moved to Oklahoma Territory where he acquired several properties during a series of land rushes. While serving as a Deputy U.S. Marshal in Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, he gained recognition for capturing the notorious outlaw fugitive Bill Doolin and helping to track and kill the other members of the Doolin-Dalton gang, a.k.a. The Wild Bunch, which made him famous as one of Oklahoma's "Three Guardsmen".
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