Deputy Sheriff, Town Marshall, Deputy U.
Marshall, Train Agent, Livestock Inspector, Dan Tucker was the quintessential lawman during the violent frontier period of southwest New Mexico.
By his own deadpan account, he was obliged to kill eight men in Grant County alone -- not counting four other outlaws he personally dropped from the scaffold.
Disinclined by nature to back down from anyone, Tucker was involved in some one dozen shooting scrapes, was shot four times, and he arrested Russian.