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‘Whispering’ Tom Mayfield:
‘Whispering’ Tom Mayfield:

‘Whispering’ Tom Mayfield:

Good lawman or bad? Old-school Lawman Tom Mayfield — saint or sinner or somewhere in the middle?In South Texas, when you research lawmen from the early 1900s, which was when Mayfield started carrying a badge, it’s hard to get at the truth about who was really decent and who wasn’t. Were the lawmen, almost all Anglo back then, decent guys, treating everyone fairly? Or were they racists with a badge, a product of their time?Like human beings from every walk of life, the truth was probably somewhere in the middle: some lawmen were decent, and some were not.The very early ...

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