John Selman
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John Henry Selman was sometimes identified as an outlaw and sometimes a working lawman of the Old West. He is best known as the man who fatally shot John Wesley Hardin in the Acme Saloon in El Paso, T
John Selman
The United States Marshals Service is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice. It operates under the direction of the United States attorney general. It is taske
John Selman
…fired in self-defense. A hung jury resulted in his release on bond, pending retrial. On the night of April 5, 1896, Selman was killed in a shootout with US Marshal George Scarborough. Period newspaper accounts differ as to the exact nature of their bad blood; one account attributes it to an ongoing gambling dispute…
Deputy U.S. Marshal Morgan Earp in an 1881 photograph
U.S. Marshals accompanying James Meredith to class
Marshals escort six-year-old Ruby Bridges from school.
Bat Masterson (standing second from right), Wyatt Earp (sitting second from left), and other deputy marshals during the Wild West era