By the mid-1920s, Al Capone was the undisputed kingpin of Chicago, which at that time was one of the most powerful crime syndicates on planet Earth.

And what's more, he was expanding operations.

Not only did Capone install a satellite crew in Sioux City, Iowa, but he also took control the rackets down in Omaha and Kansas City.

To paraphrase historian Jeff McArthur, the only thing truly

standing in the way of Al Capone's Midwest ambitions, was an overzealous Nebraska lawman

known as Richard Tugan Hart. A man said to be both fearless and incorruptible. The mysterious

heart had cut his teeth working cattle down in Oklahoma, where he claimed to be half

Native American. He served with Fowler during the Great War, and once back stateside, he pinned on

a marshal's badge in the tiny town of Homer, Nebraska. And even in Nebraska, Hart stood out

like a sore thumb, like something straight out of a Hollywood Western. Rather than dress in

fedoras and polished shoes,

Hart instead opted for a 10-gallon cowboy hat and riding boots. He preferred traveling via

horseback as opposed to automobiles, and even his weapons of choice for throwbacks to the old days.

A pair of well-oiled single-action revolvers slung low around his hip. And when the Volstead Act made the production of alcohol illegal, Hart began hunting down

bootleggers with a wild abandon.

So much so that he'd go down in history is one of the most effective prohibition agents

of all time.

And yeah, like I said earlier, by the mid-1920s, Richard T Gunhart was all that stood between Al Capone and his ever-expanding Midwest Empire.

Maybe.

Turns out Richard Two Guns was harboring a secret, one that even his wife and children weren't aware of.

You see, Richard wasn't really part Native American.

In fact, he was born in southern Italy.

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