Fourth in the Pioneer Lawman Series Published in the Cowboy Chronicle, Publication of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, June 2026 Richard “Two- Gun” Hart walked into a Chicago courtroom in late 1951. He looked older than his 59 years and was almost blind. He arrived wearing a ten-gallon cowboy hat he asked to keep on even while testifying. Hart, a frontier lawman during prohibition, was an unexpected witness at the tax evasion hearing for Ralph Capone, a brother of the notorious Al Capone. Ralph Capone had been found guilty of income tax evasion in 1930 and served three years in prison. Authorities were investigating him again, this time…

Third in the Frontier Lawman Series Published in the April 2026 issue of The Cowboy Chronicle, official publication of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Katie Kalinchenko was afraid of this moment. Her 16-year-old son Matt went missing on March 6,1927. For four months she had been waiting for her son to return not wanting to face what was increasingly likely; Matt would never be coming home. McKenzie County Sheriff Charles A. Jacobson also dreaded this day; he had led the search for Matt ever since his mother had reported him missing. Jacobson knew the loss of a child; his baby daughter died at just four months old. But not…