outstanding Western lawmen specially commissioned as bodyguards for President Calvin Coolidge and his wife during their sojourn through the Black Hills of South Dakota.

And again he was garnering headlines. ‘Two-Guns’ Sleuth Pacifies Northwest Indians touted an Associated Press dispatch from the period:

“Two-Guns” Hart, picturesque chief of Indian reservation police, once again proved that he performs as the hero of any good thriller should. On Uncle Sam’s payroll the name appears as Richard J. Hart, special federal officer, but the Indians on the reservations…long ago named him “Two-Guns,” thanks to his ambidexterity with a six-shooter….

Hart has had a hand in the capture of more than 20 murderers while covering 12 reservations. In the last year he brought in three Indian killers. He has been a cowboy, soldier and policewell-educated, prosperous wheat farmer on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation of Idaho, returned to him after running off two years earlier with another Indian, Cherrapin, who had vowed to kill her if she ever came back, picked up a revolver and pumped four bullets into her body. Swearing he would never be taken alive, Cherrapin gathered up his rifle, a pistol, 100 rounds of ammunition, food and clothing and disappeared into the mountain forests.

Two-Gun Hart, wearing, as one dispatch reported, “the conventional ten-gallon hat, red bandana and two pistols in emulation of a movie gunman,” led his Indian police on the trail of the fugitive. Benewah County Deputy Sheriff Ira Horn and a well-armed posse joined him. The manhunters tracked their quarry to a remote valley but, aware of