— FROM Outlaw TO LAWMAN — At around sunset on a Friday in early November 1896, Sheriff Frank Canton of Pawnee, Oklahoma, finished dinner and walked out of the restaurant into the chilled air, unaware a man who wanted him dead waited in the shadows.

The 47-year old lawman—born Josiah W. “Joe” Horner—once rode the outlaw trail in his youth as a bank robber and cattle rustler.

In [...]
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