The discovery of the bodies of two men at a watering hole not far from Preston Springs, found just days after the Marshal's arrival, became a mystery that set many tongues to wagging. Careful tongues that never quite say what they suspect; that the Marshal was somehow involved. Two legend points awarded.

The bringing down of a bear was a rare event. For years to come people still talked about the Marshal, the berry bushes, and that hungry grizzly. Two Legend points earned.

The slaughter of the entire Red Ribbon Mining operation rippled through every business and corporation that ever thought of operating out west. Many reconsidered. Those that didn't made certain to take hefty precautions against something like that happening to them. Furthermore, the name of Marshal 贞慷 江 was forever associated with that terrifying event. Five Legend points awarded.

The Marshal's brush with William 'Billy' Tate is later commemorated in a dime novel 'The Tin Stars of Nevada' where he recounts meeting the imposing Marshal 贞慷 江. One Legend point awarded.

There are few stories as inspiring as that of Tumbleweed Jack. Set free by the mercy of a marshal, he made his way back to Kansas and rebuilt his family's fortunes with all the vigor his youth could give. Years passed and the lurid tales of his life out west became mere amusing anecdotes. When local troubles reared an ugly head Jack helped brings things back to right and the citizens rewarded him with a write-in campaign for mayor. Slowly but surely he worked his way up the prestigious political ladder; eventually becoming an honored senator who worked with state and federal courts with a surprising adroitness. Three Legend points awarded.

The Marshal's telegram to President Johnson is naturally settled into the Presidential archives. Many decades later scholars and historians stumbled upon it and readily drew it forth into the public eye; shedding light both on the workings of post civil-war government, the Presidency, and Americana in general. Two legend points awarded.

The telegram to and from the Secretary of the Treasury office Hugh McCulloch was kept in the official archives. In the early twenty-first century those records were converted to a digital format and the Marshal's correspondence peaked historical interest in the federal Marshal system and the Old West. One Legend point awarded.

Word of the Marshal's intention to confront Steele in Preston Springs leaped onto the telegraph wires and, for one Autumn day, readily griped the imagination of the American nation. Three Legend points awarded.

No one really believes that a marshal could throw lightning. It was just preposterous; except for the fact that those stories just won't die and every time they do come up the name of 江 贞慷 is firmly affixed thanks to an obscure shopkeeper by the name of Matthew Wrigley. Two Legend points awarded.

A dime novel called 'The Obliteration of Red Ribbon Mining' was based on rumors concerning a mining expedition that never returned home. A dark figure plots innocent men's demise with the aid of 'The Bloody Virgin' whose voice shatters ears and minds before she feasts upon still-beating hearts.

No one takes the book seriously, but people kept buying it. At the end of the novel, Marshal 江 rides in to survey the ruin and bury the bodies in sadness. Two Legend points awarded.

The preposterous story of the Golden Stagecoach, pulled by a team of twelve white stallions and driven by the half-cousin of the Devil, was but a flash in the pan as far as the Old West is concerned. But a century later the tale finds a home in the metal music scene precisely because it sounded so epic. Two Legend points awarded.

Of all Martin Baldwin's works the one that stands out the most is his dime-novel called the 'The Copper Siren'; a lurid tale of a young telegraph operator whose infatuation with a young woman drives him to send a series of false telegrams to her suitors in order to lure his competition to depravity and doom.

Baldwin's intimate knowledge of the telegraph, owing to his years of working as the Elko operator, served him well in writing a story replete with details such as the identifying an operator's 'fist' based on the discrete differences they used in transmitting a message, his understanding of just how much truth people ascribed to messages from strangers, and the grim realities of frontier marshals. 'The Copper Siren' would inspire many a subsequent writer in a myriad of ways. One Legend point awarded.

The Six Horn lodge has many great tales and among them was the day they met Marshal 江 贞慷. For when they were in need the Marshal was there to help see them through to the safety of Green Deer valley. Two Legend points awarded.

The Marshal's efforts to divert the flood waters from swamping Preston Springs succeeded handily and everyone saw just what a marshal could accomplish beyond the realm of pistol and rifle. Two Legend points awarded.

It was said the Marshal got in a fair share of knuckle scrapes across Lander County. One Legend point awarded.

There are multiple accounts of the Marshal wading into a gunfight and walking away unscathed. Naturally, Hollywood had some trouble depicting this properly. Two Legend points awarded.

The Marshal was well known for spending money in such large dollops that even the gold jaded folks of Lander County were surprised. Two Legend point awarded.

The Marshal's extraction of Regina and Reginald's plans from them at the Painted Caves is a tale told and retold both among marshals and society at large. As the decades passed even Hollywood takes a swing at the scene but no one really believes that such a thing happened. Except, of course, that it did. Three Legend Points awarded.

The elevation of Miss Caraway to Deputy U.S. Marshal was unusual. Not for her drinking, as that was an occupational hazard, and not because female marshals were practically non-existent. Nor because Miss Caraway was the daughter of an infamous outlaw. There were plenty of those.

No, Miss Caraway had shown herself to be an intemperate gunslinger who had shot plenty of men and turned bandit more than once. But when she put on the tin star that all changed. Even after she set it down, she kept the idea of the badge near her heart and more than a few settlers owed her their lives because of that. Two Legend points awarded.

The death of the Bannock bandit known as Hungry Snake in the Painted Caves was widely reported in Nevada if only for its sensational backdrop. One Legend point awarded.

Historians eventually noted that in the few photographs and depictions of the Marshal, a simple golden bracelet could often be seen. Whether hanging on a cord about the neck, wrapped around the wrist, or merely kept in the hand, it always gleamed. Eventually the little bit of ancient jewelry would travel around the world; carried along by those who tempted fate. Three Legend points awarded.

The Marshal's skill with a pistol was reckoned by many to be without a peer. Generations of youngsters would debate who, if anyone, might have had a chance against such prowess. Three Legend points awarded.

The displays of accuracy with a rifle were well noted during the Marshal's time. Many a marksman had to wonder how they would have fared against such skill in a modern target competition. One Legend point awarded.

The Shoshone said that when a bear met the Marshal in the wild it tried to roar but fled when its very breath was stolen. One Legend point awarded.

Supposedly one time a wall got in the Marshal way and all they did was square their hat and push on through. Three Legend points awarded.

There is at least one variation to the Marshal's tale; a single blemish in an otherwise flawless saga. Three Legend points removed.

Following the death of a Marshal in Lander County, the second to be removed from his post in the span of two years, federal authorities rushed out yet another replacement to the beleaguered portion of Nevada. Little was known of Marshal 江 贞慷's life before his arrival in Lander County. Hints of a territorial dispute back in California were ruminated by many a tongue but 江 never said a word of it himself.

The strange deaths of a well known prospector and a respected cowboy just a day out of town shadowed the Marshal's arrival.

The day that the Marshal arrived in Preston Springs was the same day that a local gunslinger named Tumbleweed Jack came calling. Though Jack would win his release from custody after a brief stint in the Elko jail, the inhabitants of Lander County still considered that something dark had fallen across their little slice of Nevada.

Marshal 江 rode out to visit the Red Ribbon mining company but he arrived too late. The prospecting camp was a smoldering ruin. Neither of the owners, Anya or Randall Admunsen, nor any of their workers survived. The massacre would later be blamed first upon the local Shoshone but then later the more distant but aggressive Bannock tribe.

Marshal 江 would be tested again while attempting to escort a wagon loaded with gold to the Utah border. Sadly, he returned without the wagon and nary a scratch. Later stories by the Hartigan gang would indicate that a few warning shots had brought the law to heel.

Eventually a man called Steele came calling to Preston Springs. He claimed to be the proper Marshal for Lander county and had all the paperwork in order. Marshal 江 was determined to get to the bottom of the matter and that is what he set out to do.

Witnesses were spoken with and evidence gathered. Soon the two Marshals met amid the busy Babylon saloon. The jury were the citizens but the evidence didn't weight heavily enough on that alone and only by whipping them into a frenzy was Steele taken into custody. The suspected false Marsha would eventually be taken to Carson City to keep him out of lynch mob hands and it was there that a formal investigation would soon determine his guilt.

Autumn settled into Nevada and brought with it a very different threat. And not one from the Six Horns Lodges, not after Marshal 江 saw the nomadic Indians off to their wintering grounds in Green Deer Valley. The town of Preston Springs was facing a grave challenge as a flood seemed imminent. An immense effort saved the town from any serious flooding by the raging waters and life soon returned to normal.

Winter began to close in but in those waning days there came reports of Indian raiders striking near Albion Falls.

Marshal 江 set out to confront these along with a band of settlers from the Church of Latter Day Saints but ran afoul of a band of Paiute Indians. A parley was entered into and the Marshal managed to quell the anger of the Paiute's war-chief, a man called Many Falling Rocks, despite the loss and butchery of his son.

While searching for the raiders, Marshal 江 and a posse came across a regiment of U.S. Cavalry on an Indian sweep.

A long talk with Captain Baker ended with the regiment riding off without a single Indian to show for it.

Marshal 江 moved on in pursuit of the real raiders and dispersed the outlaws at the Painted Caves. This included the death of their leader, a Bannock Indian called Hungry Snake, amidst the twisting passages.

Marshal 江 贞慷 then returned to Preston Springs to wait out the winter.

The spring of 1868 opened with word of an impending attack on the Central Pacific railroad. Marshal 江 was quick to gather up some local hands before riding on out to settle things. To this day it isn't known exactly what happened at Dead Man's Gorge, except that it involved a flashing rifle, smoking pistol, and a bloody meteor hammer. Regardless, in the end he prevailed despite long odds.

But as the smoke cleared, the whistle of a distant train in distress rose up. The Marshal rode out to see what was the matter and, finding it seized by the enemy, arranged for its derailment. Sorting out the remaining foes proved easy afterward.

江 贞慷 rode for New York following events in Lander County and traveled part way along the nascent trans-continental railroad. The death of the elderly Fredrick Charles Upton after a suspected confrontation between to the two gave rise to many scandalous rumors in the years to come.

Thus ended the saga of Lander County; but other stories continued.

江 贞慷, known for carrying both a Remington forty-four and a meteor hammer, headed out to New York.

The death of Fredrick Charles Upton, the reputed mastermind of Lander County's troubles, resulted from their encounter. No charges of any kind were ever filed.

Known for being a marshal who utterly disdained legality so long as it didn't make them look too bad or if there were not any witnesses, 江 贞慷 stayed on the frontier as a marshal with a gunslinger named Miss Caraway. The two were always together and happy.

Miss Caraway gradually became accustomed to wearing the deputy's tin star and with it her bad habits, such as they were on the frontier, retreated. But no matter the trials, she would always declare that her marriage to 贞慷 江 remained her best piece of luck.

Soon enough the Marshal's true name was cleared and he was able to reacquire a particular parcel of land as their own.

The Central Pacific railroad fought off an attack in the summer of 1868 when a determined regiment of bandits, in possession of a number of outdated but still serviceable artillery pieces, advanced upon the rail-head in force. Scarcely a man was killed thanks to a stalwart defense. Work resumed quickly thereafter.

Undeterred, the railroad kept to its frantic pace and reached Promontory Summit in Utah where it met with the Union Pacific railroad. There the two railroads drove in a golden spike to bring the country together. Where before there had been two halves separated by impossible distances, now there was a road of iron forged between them.

Though the Union Pacific would shortly file for bankruptcy owing to events in New York, enough governmental support was given to keep the railroad running. The Central Pacific basked for a time in its completed work, re-capitalized and then began laying rail elsewhere to connect small towns and mining sites that swiftly grew larger and larger.

In the wake of ever so many disasters the town of Preston Springs withered as the trickle of prospector gold and silver ceased. Timothy Sadler was the first to leave and took his leather working skills back to California. Mother Maddy chose to re-establish the Mother-Lode at one of the newer towns along the trans-continental railroad. Matthew then followed suit with his General Store.

The rest of the businesses closed up one after the other until only a few stubborn folk remained to tend a ghost town that was visited but rarely by desperate prospectors and hardy farmers. Eventually those too would depart for more prosperous places.

JT Preston would be the last to go. Ever defiant, he spent a fortune trying to keep things together but in the end he too walked away, penniless and broken as his dream of a prosperous town bearing his name died.

Yiska was glad to have come to an agreement with Marshal 江 concerning his people.

Yiska and Marshal 江 reluctantly worked hard

over the years to lessen the difficulties of the Shoshone.

But the federal government would soon force the Indians onto a reservation and though their hardships were alleviated by outside charities; a few steel knives, bundles of blankets, and bags of seeds were but a small recompense for the loss of their nomadic way of life.

Lander County sprawled too much to be effectively governed and would gradually be reduced in size and scope. But even so it left its mark on every village, town, and trading post that sprung up in the wake of the trans-continental railroad.

And in the decades to come when people asked what the wild west was like, the people of the county would say that it was filled with bandits, saddle-tramps, and greedy prospectors who chose to settle amid an empty land and make of it what they could.

Miss Caraway Hartigan fell in love with Marshal 江 and, unlike so many other things in her life, this was a thing that would last. Though dubious of the concept of marriage, Miss Caraway would eventually consent to marry the Marshal after a difficult wooing period that witnesses agreed resembled a tornado touching down. Carrie 江 would later say it was the most novel experience of her life, and one she enjoyed every day thereafter.

She became the Deputy Marshal for Lander County for a time and not a head was turned by the little fact that a notorious drunk and brawler, a woman of a wholly intemperate disposition, could legally wear a tin star.

Miss Caraway drank more and more as the years passed and nearly everyone she met suffered for that. Especially those fools who skinned out their pistols against her, or worse, dared to insult the love of her life.

In order to keep her creditors at bay she returned to banditry and the like. Eventually she made a great deal of money without a great deal of unnecessary bloodshed.

Marshal 江 killed Dan Schmidt just a day's ride outside of Preston Springs. Most people didn't understand why he had died, only that he had, and soon countless stories speculated on the how; from him fighting a whole tribe of Comanche warriors, to battling a pack of werewolves, or trying to eat his weight in gold like King Midas of old.

Ben Carson was slain by Marshal 江 at the watering hole just a day's ride from Preston Springs. He left behind a wife and many children who missed him very much.

Maria Agustina Theresa, Maria de Zapopan, Maria de la Descalzas Reales, Maria Paulina de Toledo y Santarosa would continue her widowed life and platonic relationship with Marshal 江, until it was finally safe enough for her to return to Mexico.

She lived out her life hounded by her past. Rare was the day she did not pray and mourn for all that had happened to her and the people of Jalisco.

James Tiberius Preston stayed in his town for as long as he could.

He never lost the urge to make money and spend it just as quick. Whether he lost it on buying bridges or constructing a glass-works factory, he had dozens of ideas that faltered once he moved on to the next scheme.

Yiska formed a lasting friendship with Marshal 江.

When times turned rough for the Shoshone he looked to the Marshal as a weather vane for what would come next.

Yiska agitated against the federal government for many years but a lack of success made him take back up the hatchet against all federal holdings in Lander County. Faced with an uprising, the United States Cavalry pursued the war-bands just like any other renegade Indians; with bloody but unsuccessful efforts.

With the acknowledged death of the elder Upton, the man who had ordered his brother's assassination, Marshal Simon James returned to California with his wife Julie Moore. There they settled down and were happy to live and love in full.

Frank Spears died at the hands of the Hartigan gang during the ride of the Golden Stagecoach. He would eventually be buried next to his friend, Andy Smith.

Andy Smith died at Albion Falls from the wounds he sustained from the Hartigan gang. His family mourned his passing for over a year.

Sam Pitcavage went out west to find his fortune. What he found was choking dust, rattlesnakes, constant hunger, and barely enough gold to survive.

Sam kept panning for gold to make a fortune. He cussed in public, often made trouble in the saloons and shied away from fights of all stripes.

Eventually he would return to California. There he scraped up enough money to buy a farm and found joy in harvesting the bounty he brought forth.

Matthew Wrigley watched helplessly as the town of Preston Springs withered in the wake of repeated disasters. After the first saloon closed its doors he sold his stock and returned to California. There he entered the dry goods business; selling to shop owners all along the newly established railroad line.

He turned a profit and soon brought his wife and young son to join him out in California.

Richard Hartigan was never caught. Some said it was because of a pact he'd sworn with Marshal 江. Others said that the county Marshal was secretly a member of the Hartigan gang.

But Hartigan's days of rampaging soon ended and the man vanished. No one heard much about him, though from time to time a mysterious figure would accompany Marshal 江 on particularly difficult errands of justice. The figure refused to answer to any name and struck down many a law-breaker with knife or pistol; despite continuously complaining about having to do so.

But wherever he was, his much loved daughter would be nearby. They argued, sometimes fought and stood apart, but always, always loved one another as only family could.

Martin Baldwin continued to live and write in Elko for many years. His little books on the big legend of Marshal 江 all but flew from the shelves owing to that association. His dime novel, 'The Electric Marshal' would find its way into many hearts.

Encouraged, Martin began a life of literary claim and fame, traveling across the United States speaking at public engagements and private parties. Editors vied for his tales and he would eventually purchase an estate with the proceeds from his endeavors.

And every morning he would wake up early and take up his pen to set something new to paper.

As Preston Springs withered, Timothy Sadler packed up his shop and moved on. He would resettle in Wyoming and manage a rather sprawling shop until the day he died.

Kevin Coolidge crafted Marshal 江's meteor hammer and had begun to gain a favorable name in a sparse land where most farmers could barely shoe a pony let alone pour iron.

As Preston Springs began to wither, Kevin decided to pack up and move over to Elko. There the railroad let him worry less about having iron on hand and gave steady pay when rails or spokes needed work.

He worked and worked as a good blacksmith should.

And when the fires guttered, and the day was done, he would step out and draw in a drought of fresh air. The stars twinkled bright above and he imagined them as tiny forges in the night sky where unknown smiths hammered out celestial shoes for Pegasi that swung the stars around in the sky.

With that pleasant thought in mind, he would turn in for a pleasant night of slumber so that he might be ready for another long day of work.

Jeff Donner's feud with the Winthrops, both Harry and Larry, continued on until Marshal 江 intervened. An agreement was struck and Jeff consented to consider the Winthrop's sister Pamela but only if he could see her in person.

That meeting went far better than any expected and culminated weeks later with a proposal. Jeff and Pamela were married, settled in, and had a string of children. The Donner family prospered and later on when Jeff's hands could no longer close properly, his sons took up his labor and let him get some much deserved rest.

It was a good life for them and they stayed strong enough to appreciate it in full.

Harry and Larry's feud with Jeff Donner continued on until Marshal 江 intervened. An agreement was struck and Jeff Donner consented to consider the Winthrop's sister Pamela but only if he could see her in person.

That meeting went far better than any expected and culminated weeks later with a proposal. Harry and Larry were thrilled to finally have the big butcher on their side for they knew that things would at last turn their way.

Harry and Larry married local women, one an Indian, and expanded the tannery to send leather goods both east and west as needed along the railroad line. As the years passed, the sons and daughters of the Winthrop name would slowly marry into the very sinews of the county.

Wong Dai Choi continued to help feed the rail-layers of the Central Pacific railroad until the track entered Utah. He returned to California with gold and silver in abundance and set up his own import company. It flourished and provided a crossroads of exotic eastern cuisine with the more hearty America fare.

In time he would pass the reins of the corporation to his sons and retire to live in a respectable San Francisco home. There he would tend to his family as their wise patriarch. His sons and daughters, and their children, and their children's children, would live and love in California for generations to come.

Many Falling Rocks, the war-chief of Those Who Live In Snow; a Paiute tribe of Oregon, parleyed with Marshal 江 and a band of Saints and eventually agreed with the conclusion that others had slain his son and then tried to lay the blame upon others.

Many Falling Rocks pledged to aid Marshal 江 in any endeavor against those who had slain his son, and Those Who Live In Snow never forgot the bargain. Even as their numbers dwindled and the last of them married into other peoples tribes, they would speak of it at gatherings so that the honor of it never faded away.

Anya and Randall perished alongside the prospectors of the Red Ribbon mining company. In time their names would be as forgotten as their graves.

Captain Baker would lead his regiment of Cavalry for a number of years as they patrolled the frontier. There would be plenty of scrapes with Indians and armed gangs until the day he retired with a small pension and took up farming in Oregon.

Lieutenant Dalton replaced Baker as Captain and when the regiment was called east to fight under General Custer, Dalton was thrilled to finally go in against the Indians. At the battle of Little Big Horn things would not develop to his advantage and a host of arrows would seal his fate.

Rolly-Polly was an ordinary mouse until the day that Marshal 江 decided to take the little critter under his care. With a fat little belly the tiny animal, once considered a nuisance, became an erstwhile companion. At first Rolly-Polly stayed chiefly in the office but later would be seen all around town. It was a hard life on the frontier, hot in summer, cold in winter, and there were always cats or coyotes around; but Rolly-Polly endured and had plenty of descendents.

The Marshal's exotic striped Grulla suffered half the year on the frontier and baked the rest. Resigned to its fate, it kept to its stable and only ventured out when the Marshal demanded it.

The discovery of the bodies of two men at a watering hole not far from Preston Springs, found just days after the Marshal's arrival, sets many tongues to wagging. Careful tongues that never quite say what they suspect. The possibilities of what might or might not have happened, and whether Marshal 江 was involved, slowly ferment its way into countless tales. Two legend points awarded.

Bringing down a bear was a rare event. For years to come people still talked about the Marshal, the berry bushes, and that hungry grizzly. Two Legend points earned.

The slaughter of the entire Red Ribbon Mining operation rippled through every business and corporation that ever thought of operating out west. Many reconsidered. Those that didn't made certain to take hefty precautions against something like that happening to them. Furthermore, the name of Marshal 贞慷 江 was forever associated with that terrifying event. Five Legend points awarded.

The Marshal's brush with William 'Billy' Tate is later commemorated in a dime novel 'The Tin Stars of Nevada' where he recounts meeting the imposing Marshal 贞慷 江. One Legend point awarded.

There are few stories as inspiring as that of Tumbleweed Jack. Set free by the mercy of a marshal, he made his way back to Kansas and rebuilt his family's fortunes with all the vigor his youth could give. Years passed and the lurid tales of his life out west became mere amusing anecdotes. When local troubles reared an ugly head Jack helped brings things back to right and the citizens rewarded him with a write-in campaign for mayor. Slowly but surely he worked his way up the prestigious political ladder; eventually becoming an honored senator who readily worked with state and federal courts with a surprising adroitness. Three Legend points awarded.

The Marshal's telegram to President Johnson is naturally settled into the Presidential archives. Many decades later scholars and historians stumbled upon it and readily drew it forth into the public eye; shedding light both on the workings of post civil-war government, the Presidency, and Americana in general. Two legend points awarded.

The telegram to and from the Secretary of the Treasury office Hugh McCulloch was kept in the official archives. In the early twenty-first century those records were converted to a digital format and the Marshal's correspondence peaked historical interest in the federal Marshal system and the Old West. One Legend point awarded.

Word of the Marshal's intention to confront Steele in Preston Springs leaped onto the telegraph wires and, for one Autumn day, readily griped the imagination of the American nation. Three Legend points awarded.

No one really believes that a marshal could throw lightning. It was just preposterous; except for the fact that those stories just won't die and every time they do come up the name of 江 贞慷 is firmly affixed thanks to an obscure shopkeeper by the name of Matthew Wrigley. Two Legend points awarded.

A dime novel called 'The Obliteration of Red Ribbon Mining' was based on rumors concerning a mining expedition that never returned home. A dark figure plots innocent men's demise with the aid of 'The Bloody Virgin' whose voice shatters ears and minds before she feasts upon still-beating hearts.

No one takes the book seriously, but people kept buying it. At the end of the novel, Marshal 江 rides in to survey the ruin and bury the bodies in sadness. Two Legend points awarded.

The preposterous story of the Golden Stagecoach, pulled by a team of twelve white stallions and driven by the half-cousin of the Devil, was but a flash in the pan as far as the Old West is concerned. But a century later the tale finds a home in the metal music scene precisely because it is so epic. Two Legend points awarded.

Of all Martin Baldwin's works the one that stands out the most is his dime-novel called the 'The Copper Siren'; a lurid tale of a young telegraph operator whose infatuation with a young woman drives him to send a series of false telegrams to her suitors in order to lure his competition to depravity and doom.

Baldwin's intimate knowledge of the telegraph, owing to his years of working as the Elko operator, served him well in writing a story replete with details such as the identifying an operator's 'fist' based on the discrete differences they used in transmitting a message, his understanding of just how much truth people ascribed to messages from strangers, and the grim realities of frontier marshals. 'The Copper Siren' would inspire many a subsequent writer in a myriad of ways. One Legend point awarded.

The Six Horn lodge has many great tales and among them was the day they met Marshal 江 贞慷. For when they were in need, the Marshal was there to help see them through to the safety of Green Deer valley. Two Legend points awarded.

The Marshal's efforts to divert the flood waters from swamping Preston Springs succeeded handily and everyone saw just what a marshal could accomplish beyond the realm of pistol and rifle. Two Legend points awarded.

It was said the Marshal got in a fair share of knuckle scrapes across Lander County. One Legend point awarded.

There are multiple accounts of the Marshal wading into a gunfight and walking away unscathed. Naturally, Hollywood has some trouble depicting this properly. Two Legend points awarded.

The Marshal was well known for spending money in such large dollops that even the gold jaded folks of Lander County were surprised. Two Legend point awarded.

The Marshal's extraction of Regina and Reginald's plans from them at the Painted Caves is a tale told and retold both among marshals and society at large. As the decades passed even Hollywood takes a swing at the scene but no one really believes that such a thing happened. Except, of course, that it did. Three Legend Points awarded.

The elevation of Miss Caraway to Deputy U.S. Marshal was unusual. Not for her drinking, as that was an occupational hazard, and not because female marshals were practically non-existent. Nor because Miss Caraway was the daughter of an infamous outlaw. There were plenty of those.

No, Miss Caraway had shown herself to be an intemperate gunslinger who had shot plenty of men and turned bandit more than once. But when she put on the tin star that all changed. Even after she set it down, she kept the idea of the badge near her heart and more than a few settlers owed her their lives because of that. Two Legend points awarded.

The death of the Bannock bandit known as Hungry Snake in the Painted Caves was widely reported in Nevada if only for its sensational backdrop. One Legend point awarded.

Historians eventually noted that in the few photographs and depictions of the Marshal, a simple golden bracelet could often be seen. Whether hanging on a cord about the neck, wrapped around the wrist, or merely kept in the hand, it always gleamed. Eventually the little bit of ancient jewelry would travel around the world; carried along by those who tempted fate. Three Legend points awarded.

Though a frontier marshal often lived a rough and tumble life it was never said that the Marshal 江 didn't know how to gather and sift the evidence. One Legend point awarded.

Marshal 江 reckoned that a law that was never broken just didn't have a purpose. Two Legend points awarded.

The Marshal's skill with a pistol was reckoned by many to be without a peer. Generations of youngsters would debate who, if anyone, might have had a chance against such prowess. Three Legend points awarded.

The displays of accuracy with a rifle were well noted during the Marshal's time. Many a marksman had to wonder how they would have fared against such skill in a modern target competition. One Legend point awarded.

The Shoshone said that when a bear met the Marshal in the wild, it tried to roar but fled when its breath was suddenly stolen. One Legend point awarded.

Supposedly one time a wall got in the Marshal way and all they did was square their hat and push on through. Three Legend points awarded.

There is at least one variation to the Marshal's tale; a single blemish in an otherwise flawless saga. Three Legend points removed.

江 贞慷, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, Anne Oakley, Davy Crockett, and Daniel Boone are undisputed Legends.

Over the years anyone and everyone has tried to claim each of the above as one of their own, regardless of whether their wild adventures were true. Truth or fiction mattered little when people wanted something to boast about.

江 贞慷 has proven to be the foremost of those as the name can be found in countless novels, radio programs, and movies about his life. Interactive games swiftly tackled the Marshal's tale with everything from a digital adventure to a massive on-line world where the simple tin star can be seen both there and in the real world through a myriad facets.

Western culture proved no less voracious and leading actors would come to blows for the chance to don the iconic tin star on stage and screen so that they might bring the Marshal's epic tales before a new generation.