David Beck

*"With him dead ain't nobody gonna be hunting you except from me...but I will give you one more chance, I know your loss Mr. Duke with your father and I've studied your life, with Mr. Conley dead you'll have no government agents hunting you as far as I have control over it but continue to do what you do and I will hunt you down."* -David to Emmet Duke

David Beck was a well known Sheriff who eventually became a US Marshal and was well known for his service to his country of capturing many famed gangs and criminals. Eventually David retired becoming a distinguished Marshal and was given his own house in the city of Bandera.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Restraint

Not much is known of David's childhood only that his mother was a house wife whereas his father was a Sheriff in Jericho for quite a while, around the time of David becoming 20 he became a deputy in Jericho shortly after his father had retired with his mother into the countryside, David would work under many Sheriffs and other officers proving himself a capable man. The first job that David had ever done was hunting down a group of 5 who were ruthlessly killing people around the state of Weirdale to which David and a fellow deputy were tracking them until the other deputy was captured, within a couple of days David found the mutilated body of his former deputy where he would be very angry however he did not report his findings to his superior but instead hunted the men alone and would eventually find them. Upon finding them a firefight broke out where David would manage to wound all of them and tie them up, he then proceeded to bring the men into his prison wagon and back to Jericho where they would eventually swing.

#### Honour

After a time of being a good deputy and gaining the respect of Jericho, David would be promoted to the sheriff of the town and would oversee its protection for quite a time, despite the flack that he did receive he was still considered by many people as an honourable man and a good man. Around the year of 1879 David would suffer a lot of backlash and hate from the people of Jericho after the local bank was robbed and William Green had forwarded the blame to him convincing the people that it was his fault, David fully took the blame for it and too took a shot at his own career with failing to see the bank being robbed. David was very good at his job and was committed to his job so to see himself fail so easily he felt embarrassed and ashamed, from that point on David made a promise to hunt down those who did it and would not stop until he did.

#### Botched Bank

In the year 1887 David met Peter Conley who was an undercover federal agent tracking Martin Duke and his two followers, Peter revealed to David who he was and told him that there could potentially be a bank robbery in Bandera soon, whilst nothing really happened for the rest of the year it was in 1888 that the city bank was going to be robbed. David would gather his deputies meeting up with the city police and Peter Conley where they planned out how they were going to stop these men and hopefully arrest them, Peter had devised a plan placing police near the bank but out of sight from Martin whilst David had his deputies set up in other nearby areas. The bank robbery began to which then the city police and David plus his deputies would go in to arrest the three men, David himself was lucking to grab Abraham Keller and arrested him however he witnessed Martin Duke get shot off of the roof top he was running on, not finding the third man David would bring Abraham back to the city jail where he was going to watch him hang. As he waited Peter would show up stating that Abraham cannot be hung just yet as he wants to use him and that it is government business, this would infuriate David but he stuck to the law and obeyed what Peter had said.

### Later Life

#### 1898

In the year of 1890 David would again be promoted and made a US Marshal where he would now serve more under the government than he previously did, with this new role he now oversaw the state of Weirdale and appointed new deputies and sheriffs in different towns, 8 years later the state of Weirdale would see a significant increase in gang activities and criminal activities with more trains being robbed and stage coaches being robbed with people also being kidnapped for money. The government would hound David for more action upon cracking down on the outlaw problem he was having, David would step up the law and hunted many of these outlaws himself. It would eventually happen after a while David and his men would find a small group of Keller's Gang with Abraham Keller and Willis Olson with them David would be able to capture them and have them both hanged, the government however had not seen much progress and had sent Peter Conley back to Weirdale to make some progress, the faith from the government once again infuriated David as he did not want to work with Peter again, once Peter arrived he practically took over the deputies and sheriffs under his command which only added to David's anger.

#### Choices

Around the end of 1898 David would of been pushed around by Peter Conley and eventually had enough of it, David would tail Peter who was hunting Emmet Duke who was also by himself, with Emmet at Peter's feet with an injured leg David would take out his revolver firing into the back of Peter killing him, David would help Emmet up realising that some people like Emmet aren't good but they are honest and some people like Peter cause chaos. David would allow Emmet to walk away but warned him if he continued to do the stuff he did he would hunt him down, both David and Emmet would never speak about what happened to Peter and would eventually go on about their lives, after a while David would eventually retire and was given a house for his services by the government in the city of Bandera.