Willie Kennard, The First Black Lawman in Colorado

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No one challenged him. This is his and no one and nothing would take away from what life hadn't counted on was David's having no intensity to just show up in his case into town. Matt Borden Gen. store is also the matter of Yankee Hill and down business faster upon this café over coffee in the blackout.

We walked in and said my name is will I read your town looking for Marshall.

I like to apply for the job board would say. Years later he wasn't impressed when the counselor looked up at Canada matched.

You can read boy, but the common Willie site Hassan from the applicant is the hiring process. We have to make sure you can handle the job: what is that, as a man in the bar across the street to kill several men to come to former Marshall's rest of the job is yours. The Marshall badge to get back soon with a nod.

Marshall started walking across the street would just die underestimated. Willie was a battle hardened warrior ethos Corp. with the seven film was rifle company. It also shows Calvary forklift Texas later moved to Fort Davis is very funny to see Apaches being a corporate leader of men, this time of the units, some from as was over so many others found very few options from towns Denver town marshal now with Ms. behind the badge you want to study how he also wore special slow pace to demands to associates, so we approached the table and forms case with is under arrest well case with his friends on the Senate ever heard people to just come with you case. When asked where we going that your choice will answer you go to jail and go to hell and yeah exactly 2 choices, surrender or add to his list of children's option one, option two is easy.

You still intend add to the Lysistrata which was what happened next is debated something before even touch the guns drawn and fired twice. The pistol grip and for the gun belt pulse weapons useless to say that will true okay sweetheart across the side of the head with a drawn pistol blocks with the server today was American heavy-metal.

It's very best wishes to you what happened the case. What no one disputes what happened in this case was both try to draw the new Marshall and for the halfway out between the eyes with the jail justice was very swift back then. Case was tried for the rape of the Campbell girl the murders of the Marshall's and the townspeople the edge of town pine tree at home. Stories have the he wrapped his legs on the tree and dying all alone. This agonies fitting in and the town of Yankee Hill had a new Marshall. Willie was paid hundred dollars a month which a little bit shy of $2300 in today's money now to get tested again as a robber named Billy McGeorge escapee from the call out to you from the gang around himself, and they played on the freight wagons and stages around the boat trip. The town Council asked Mark to track down realize this wasn't such a great idea.

Colorado is huge Colorado is chasing guys all over the territory until doomsday still never catch them, make them come to me. He said soon wanted poster started showing up on treason posts. The Marshall value. McGeorge's head of a mutually $50. Now this take McGeorge off quite a bit every other motion around the desk at least 350 bucks.

That almost wasn't with walking across the street for so we decided to do was go to Yankee Hill gang and explain the facts of life is so Hill Marshall Kent was waiting for the double barrel shotgun drop your weapons can order the shotgun at them. One of them wanting Down. I tried pulling Willie. Willie Bloom off the horse will blast the shotgun blast also show the general store fails to load and aimed right at him. McGeorge school of ministry under the jail with a vengeance soon found something of the same tree that died on the fumes. By 1877 Yankee Hill was a quiet town loss with Diane town gold in the area had ran out and people just moving on. We looked around was a ghost town soon badge is at least the promise of a wife and boy vanishes from history forever where he went when he died, was buried for the time being, like so many old West heroes. We cannot broken history leave a lasting legacy is Carlos first black law man, very special thanks to Monty for doing the production on that piece and to Richard Nunez for his terrific storytelling and by the way, this was a real-life bad guy terrorizing a town and needed a real-life tough good guy save and he did in my goodness, the stories of towns told her she was telling a lot.

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