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  • Badges That Won The West -- Tombstone Marshal's Badge
    The Tombstone, Arizona U.S. Marshal's Badge recalls the mining town of Tombstone, with its storied Boot Hill Cemetery and Gunfight at the OK Corral. Even though history records several gunfights with more combatants and a much higher body count, the OK Corral shoot-out is acknowledged by historians to be the most famous gunfight in the history of the American West.
  • Badges That Won The West -- Lincoln County Sheriff's Badge
    The Lincoln County Sheriff's badge recalls the violent 1870s, when a range war erupted between several ranchers and a trio of corrupt businessmen in the town of Lincoln.

    The most famous participant in the conflict was William Henry McCarty, a.k.a. William H. Bonney, better known as "Billy the Kid", though most of his fame resulted from his role in the Lincoln County War.
  • Badges That Won The West - Dodge City Marshal's Badge
    Dodge City Badges were worn by Bat Masterson (county sheriff), his brother, Ed Masterson, (a City Marshall killed in the line of duty) and Wyatt Earp (also a City Marshal), among others. It was their job to impose order on this wild, western Kansas cowtown where railroad workers, buffalo hunters, soldiers from Ft. Dodge and cowhands came to drink, carouse and fight.
  • Badges That Won The West -- Deadwood Marshal's Badge
    Wild Bill Hickcock, Calamity Jane and many other colorful characters walked the streets of Deadwood, South Dakota in its early days, but there was little evidence of law, much less order in the rowdy mining camp.
  • Badges That Won The West -- Texas Ranger's Badge
    The Texas Ranger badge is the emblem for a proud tradition of service that stretches back over a century. Rugged frontier Indian fighters, revolutionaries, detectives and lawmen-- the Texas Rangers are the stuff of Western Legend.
  • Badges That Won The West - Pony Express Messenger Badge
    Nothing about the Old West has captured our imaginations like the lone Pony Express messenger galloping across the frontier carrying a mail pouch he would defend with his life. The Pony Express Messenger Badge is an enduring symbol of a glorious, uniquely American enterprise that operated only eighteen months, between April 1860 and October 1861.



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