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• R. A. Caldwell - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on January 21, 1889, in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes. 

• Thomas W. Caldwell - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on October 19, 1891, in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes. 

• California State Rangers - California's first state-wide law enforcement agency, formed in 1853.

• Harry Callahan - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Fourth District of the Texas Eastern District in 1893.

• A. Callison - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• Wallace T. Calloway - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

• John Cameron - A lawman, Cameron also served in Company E as a Texas Ranger in 1892.

• George W. Campbell - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris, Texas in 1895 under Marshal Sheb Williams. 

• George Washington Campbell (1850-1881) - Deputy in Clay County, Texas; cattle detective in New Mexico; and City Marshal in El Paso, Texas briefly. He was shot by Dallas Stoudenmire in the Four Dead in Five Seconds gunfight on April 14, 1881 and died the following day.

• J.E. Campbell - Campbell was a sergeant in the Arizona Rangers in 1903.

• James J. Campbell (18??-1891) - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on August 6, 1881, in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshals Valentine Dell, Thomas Boles, John Carroll and Jacob Yoes. He was killed on May 25, 1891. 

• L. H. Campbell - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on June 29, 1893 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.

• Malcolm "Old Grizzly” Campbell (1839-1932) - Frontier lawman in Wyoming.

• P. L. Campbell - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Central District of Indian Territory in 1894.

• Lee Cannon - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• Rufus "Rufe” Cannon - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on September 15, 1892 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes. Cannon was one of the most important black lawmen of the Oklahoma territorial era.

• S. R. Cannon - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

• J. A. Cansdale - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Northern District of Indian Territory in October of 1894.

• Frank M. Canton, aka: Joe Horner (1849-1927) - Johnson County, Wyoming Sheriff where he fought in the Johnson County War. Later moved to Oklahoma where he became a U.S. Deputy Marshal and Q County, Oklahoma Under Sheriff.

• Ben C. Cantrell - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on July 4, 1887 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under marshal Jacob Yoes.

• C. P. Cantwell - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned the Central District of Indian Territory in 1894.

• S. V. Capps - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned April 28, 1892 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.

• E. D. Carlton - U.S. Deputy Marshalcommissioned in the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris, Texas, in 1894.

• John Carlton (1837-1887) - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was killed in the line of duty on November 5, 1887.

• Marion Carlton - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on May 8, 1891 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.

• James Carlyle (18??-1880) - Carlyle was a deputy sheriff in Las Vegas, New Mexico when he was killed by on December 1, 1880.

• Iste Carney - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• B.P. "Bat" Carr - Primarily a gambler and businessman, Carr was made city marshal of Caldwell, Kansas, and made the mistake of hiring Henry Newton Brown as a deputy. Brown would go on to rob a bank, kill a man and be hanged.

• T. Jeff Carr - The first sheriff of Laramie County, Wyoming Territory, in 1869. He made Wild Bill Hickok check his guns in Cheyenne and in 1876, arrested Jack McCall, the man who shot Hickok. Later served as a U.S. Deputy Marshal for Wyoming.

• William H. "Bill” Carr (18??-19??) - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District court at Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1887. Though having a solid service record, he was accused of assisting the outlaw Christian brothers from escaping a jail in Oklahoma City and spent the rest of his life in hiding.

• Hugh Carroll - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• J. Frank Carroll - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on October 9, 1888, in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.

• John C. Carroll - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on August 31, 1886 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  

• Alfred H. Carson - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on October 19, 1869 in the District Court at Van Buren, Arkansas serving under Marshal Joseph Rowland.

• Abrab J. Carson - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on April 2, 1870 in the District Court at Van Buren, Arkansas, serving under Marshal William A. Britton.

• Joe Carson(18??-1880) - Part of the Dodge City Gang of Las Vegas, New Mexico, Carson was the town constable. He was killed by outlaw John Dorsey when he asked him to check his guns on January 22, 1880.

• Thomas "Tom" Carson (18??-1872) - A lawman and nephew of Kit Carson, Carson was a Deputy City Marshal in Abilene, Kansas under Wild Bill Hickok. Later, he worked as a lawman in Dodge City, where he was killed.

• Thomas Carson - Served in Company E of the Texas Rangers and fought the Chris Evans Gang in 1880.

• Calvin  Carter - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on July 2, 1889 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.

• Charles C. "Crit” Carter - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris, Texas in 1894.

• Frank Carter - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on July 22, 1889, in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.

• J. W. Carter - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• Samuel M. Carter - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on August 26, 1891 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.

• "Tex” Carter - A gunfighter for Jim Lacy, Opium Bob, and Dutch Charley Bates, Carter escaped a lynch mob on March 22, 1881, at Rawlins, Wyoming and later became a sheriff in Nebraska.

• L.B. Caruthers - A lawman, Caruthers served with the Texas Rangers during the Higgins-Horrell feud and fought the Evans Gang in 1880.

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