Talk:Frank Eaton

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Pete pc color.png

message: :I've decided to cross-post this to the Talk:Pistol Pete (mascot) page. Cowboyorange (talk) 14:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources cited

message: One editor removed this assertion as unsourced -- but replaced it with another unsourced assertion! Someone needs to do the homework here.... --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I'll sort thru this and use something. But it sounds like he definitely WASN't a US Marshall! Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 04:04, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cowboy, US Marshall?? 

message: Apologies for a lack of citation, but that is the crux of the issue - there are NO sources that give credence to Eaton's claim that he was a Deputy. Please check the following and advise as to what would work best:
* No Existing Oath of Office for Eaton as a DUSM from the Western District of Arkansas for that time frame. As reference, there are c.1400 extant Oaths from the Western District of Arkansas. His is not among them. 
* No mention of him in the various Reports to the Attorney General of the United States for that period (c.1877-1885).
* No mention of DUSM Chris Adams (the DUSM who supposedly offered him a commission) in any official documents (Oath of Office or Report to the Attorney General).
* No mention of a Federal Judge Charles Bailey (the judge who supposedly swore him in) in the Western District of Missouri (or the Western District of Arkansas), much less the existence of a US Court ever being established in Southwest City, Missouri (at that time, part of the Western District of Missouri)
* At the time of his claimed commissioning, 1877, Eaton also claimed to have been given the nickname of Pistol Pete by Colonel J.J. Coppinger of Fort Gibson, I.T. Coppinger, although stationed in and around Indian Territory at this time, was not promoted to Lieutenant Colonel until 1883 and was not assigned to Fort Gibson until 1886. 
* According to the Census of 1900, Eaton was born in 1868. According to the Censuses of 1910 and 1920, he was born in 1862. By these, he was either 15 or 9 years old at the time of his claimed commissioning in 1877. 
Thanks for your input - 
Dave Kennedy
Curator
US Marshals Museum
Fort Smith, Arkansas
--Montanakennedy (talk) 22:47, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I'll sort thru this and use something. But it sounds like he definitely WASN't a US Marshall! Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 04:04, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced Assertion that Frank Eaton was not a Deputy US Marshal (DUSM)