You've all heard of him.

He had nerve, of course, and when he was backed into a corner he made good; he was sure sudden death with a gun.

But when he went for a man deliberate, he didn't take no special chances.

For a while he was marshal at Willets.
Pretty soon it was noted that there was a heap of cases of resisting arrest, where Sam as marshal had to shoot, and that those cases almost always happened to be his personal enemies.

Of course, that might be all right, but it looked suspicious.