Mr. Coker nodded appreciatively, and Mrs. Kimmelmann turned her attention to Bill Tilghman. "And now to you, Billy Tilghman, and you too, Flora—I understand you will be leaving Dodge City soon for Guthrie, Oklahoma and a new post as deputy marshal there. I calculate that you too will achieve great things."
Once again, Mrs. Kimmelmann proved quite prophetic. Bill Tilghman would become police chief of Oklahoma City, an Oklahoma state senator, and a movie producer. In 1915, he co-wrote, directed, and starred in the movie The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, which dramatized the law enforcement activities of Tilghman and other Oklahoma lawmen. He was a close personal friend of President Theodore Roosevelt's, who once said, "Tilghman would charge hell with a bucket."
Then Mrs. Kimmelmann gave
