For most of 1871, he was Marshal of Abilene, Kansas, one of the wildest towns in the Wild West
He soon selected Abilene, Kansas, and opened the Abilene Trail 
through Indian ... By 1870, it had become so lawless, that Abilene hired its first 
marshal, ... it also inherited a reputation for being one of the wildest cowtowns in 
the West.