THREE GUARDSMEN Ep. 6 | Bill Tilghman: “The End of the Outlaws”

Legends of the Old West

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Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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As the battle raged between the U.S. Marshals and the Doolin-Dalton Gang, Tilghman narrowly missed a legendary – but tragic – shootout between the two sides. In the aftermath, an elite group of manhunters, including Tilghman, pursued the gang day and night. Tilghman had the honor of cornering Bill Doolin, but he would need Heck Thomas’s help to finally put an end to the “king of the outlaws.” Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join To advertise on this podcast, please email: [email protected] For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In April of 1889, 34-year-old Bill Tillman was allowed to enter Oklahoma just before its
0:20.0	first land rush and grab a spot.
0:23.0	Nearly two million acres of land opened up to white settlement in Indian territory.
0:28.5	On earlier, Tillman had been a lawman in Dodge.
0:32.3	There he took a bullet in the thigh during a quasi-legal removal of election records
0:37.1	in an event called the Grey County War.
0:40.2	Tillman recovered from his wound, but lost his home.
0:44.0	By 1889, he was forced to walk away from it like so many others.
0:49.0	The Kansas boom went bust, and he couldn't make the tax burden.
0:54.2	As Tillman had such a stellar reputation as a lawman in Dodge, the mayor of the brand
0:59.2	new town of Guthrie, Oklahoma, hired him and Jim Masterson, younger brother of Bat and
1:05.1	Ed, to rid the city of squatters.
1:08.9	After a federal court was established at Guthrie in 1889, Tillman was appointed a deputy
1:14.4	US marshal.
1:16.6	Though Tillman never touched a drop of alcohol, one of the first things he did when he arrived
1:21.1	in Guthrie was to open a saloon.
1:24.0	That was perfectly legal, and a welcome business in the new territory of Oklahoma.
1:29.1	But what wasn't legal was gambling, at least not within the confines of a saloon.
1:34.9	But Tillman's name, and that of his brother Frank, showed up at least 19 times in the
1:39.8	Guthrie arrest records over the next two years for maintaining a house of gambling.
1:45.6	He always bonded out, and somehow the arrests never made it into the newspapers.
1:51.2	His last recorded arrest was in August of 1892, by which time he had paid over $450
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