the man’s reputation as a crack shot, hesitated to attack his position. In the end Cherrapin chose to surrender, out of his “respect for the reputation and clear shooting eye of Hart,” according to press reports. “‘Two-Gun’ Hart, Indian policeman who has stricken terror to the heart of many a brave buck of the Northwest, has brought in his man again,” one news dispatch gushed.

Charged with second-degree murder, Cherrapin was convicted at Coeur d’Alene late that year and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. A few weeks after seeing Cherrapin off to the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island, Hart, assisted by two of his Indian police, Chindahl and Sigloch, nabbed Tom Gregory, another violently inclined reservation resident, and jailed him for a vicious knife attack on his victim.

Hart becameso well known in the Northwest that when postal authorities in Tekoa, Wash., received a letter in the spring of 1930 bearing no address other than the single word “Hart” and a rough sketch of a brace of pistols, they knew to deliver it to the renowned Indian reservation policeman.

Although famous for his nickname and proficiency with pistols, Hart also could use his fists to good advantage, according to a May 15, 1927, story in South Dakota’s Aberdeen Daily News. During a raid on the ranch of Frank Yancey near the Rosebud Reservation, Hart found a 100-gallon still and a great quantity of moonshine. The agent informed Yancey he was under arrest.

Yancey was defiant, growling that if Hart wasn’t wearing his guns, he, Yancey, would give him a