One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830-1901) cast
a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona
Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for
his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring
events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight near the OK Corral in
Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills crucial gaps
in Paul's story and recounts a life of almost constant adventure.
As told by veteran western historian John Boessenecker, this story
is more than just a western shoot-'em-up, and it reveals Paul to be
far more than a blood-and-thunder gunfighter. Beginning with Paul's
boyhood adventures as a whaler in the South Pacific, the author
traces his journey to Gold Rush California, where he served
respectively as constable, deputy sheriff, and sheriff in Calaveras
County, and as Wells Fargo shotgun messenger and detective. Then,
in the turbulent 1880s, Paul became sheriff of Pima County,
Arizona, and a railroad detective for the Southern Pacific. In 1890
President Benjamin Harrison appointed him U.S. marshal of Arizona
Territory. Transcending local history, Paul's story provides an
inside look into the rough-and-tumble world of frontier politics,
electoral corruption, Mexican-U.S. relations, border security,
vigilantism, and western justice. Moreover, issues that were
important in Paul's career - illegal immigration, smuggling on the
Mexican border, youth gangs, racial discrimination, ethnic
violence, and police-minority relations - are as relevant today as
they were during his lifetime.
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