Born to the Badge

Born to the Badge was a 2019 Spur Award Finalist!Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier twenty-six year old Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods and so he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed-Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock a runaway prostitute who like Wyatt is searching for a chance at a better life. As assistant marshal in Dodge Wyatt establishes a reputation as an uncompromising peace officer but he knows that police work will never deliver what he really wants: wealth and the respect of the upper class. After joining the Black Hills gold rush and then serving a stint as railroad detective in Texas he returns to Kansas only to pin on the badge again and inadvertently forge his path into history.