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• Charles Frederick "Kid" Lambert (1887-1971) - After bringing in three killers at the age of 16, he was made the youngest Territorial Marshall from New Mexico. He was later appointed to the New Mexico Mounted Police and pursued the Wild Bunch and Black Jack Ketchum's Gang. Afterwards he was made a U.S. Special Officer and continued to serve as a lawman until after WWII.

• Peter R. "Rattlesnake Pete" Lanahan (18??-1871) - A lawman in Hays, Kansas, Lanahan ran against Sheriff  James B. "Wild Bill" Hickok in November, 1869 and defeated him. Lanahan was assassinated in July, 1871.

• James David Landrum (18??-1942) - Served as a Texas Ranger before becoming a deputy sheriff of Haskell County, Texas in 1901, and later in Abilene. He served on the Waco police force from 1912 to 1917 and later on the Dallas police force.

• Van Lane - Served as a Texas Ranger in the 1890s and in 1897 helped break up a gang terrorizing San Saba, Texas.

• N.P. Langford - Was known as a "law and order officer" in Montana at the time  Sheriff Plummer was operating in Bannack.

• Sam Larkin - Served in Company C of the Texas Rangers around 1907.

• John M. Larn (1849-1877) - Both an outlaw and lawman in Shackleford County, Texas, Larn got involved in a tough vigilante group called the Tin Hat Brigade, who eventually killed him.

• James V. Latham (18??-1936) - A Texas Ranger beginning in 1880, he fought the Evans Gang and continued to serve for more than a decade. He later served as a deputy sheriff of El Paso, County, Texas as well as a lawman in New Mexico.

• Oscar Latta - After serving as a Texas Ranger in the 1890s, he became a deputy sheriff in Kimble County, Texas in February, 1897. He was later elected sheriff and helped defeat the Crane-Knight gang. He rejoined the Texas Rangers in 1939.

• J. Tom Laughlin - Served as a Texas Ranger in 1907.

• Robert Nelson Leatherwood (1844-1920) - Tucson, Arizona Mayor and Pima County Sheriff. Captured a train robbing gang in 1883.

• James Franklin "Bud" Ledbetter (1852-1937) - Deputy Sheriff, Johnson County, Arkansas; U.S. Deputy Marshal, Oklahoma Territory; Sheriff, Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

• Oliver Lee - A U.S. Deputy Marshal in New Mexico Territory in 1894.

• Isaiah W. Lees (1830-1902); Detective, San Francisco, California Police Department.

• Joseph Lefors (1865-1940) - A detective in Wyoming who fought battles with the Wild bunch, he was later appointed as U.S. Deputy Marshal.

• Lon Lewis - Served briefly as a Texas Ranger in 1889 before being appointed as a U.S. Deputy Marshal in Indian Territory. Later, he became the first sheriff of Tulsa County, Oklahoma.

• Ras Lewis - See Willard Erastus Christianson

• William Winslow Lewis (1855-1934) - A cowboy, Lewis joined the Texas Rangers in 1874, during which he fought against the Kiowa Indians near Jacksboro, Texas.

• William Sidney "Cap" Light (1863?-1893) - Deputy sheriff, Belton, Texas, Temple, Texas and Creede, Colorado.

• W.W. Lewis (18??-1934) - Served in Company D of the Texas Rangers under Captain Dan W. Roberts.

• Lighthorse Police (1844-1889) -  The Indian Police in Oklahoma were given the name Lighthorse by the Five Civilized Tribes when the state was still Indian Territory.

• Seldon T. Lindsey (1854-19??) - Lindsey worked as a cowboy and a buffalo hunter before becoming a U.S. Deputy Marshal in 1890.

• William Henry Harrison Llewellyn (1851-1927) - Commissioned as a special agent of the Department of Justice to pursue outlaw David "Doc" Middleton, which he accomplished in 1881.

• Ira Long (1842-1913) - A cowboy and stockman, Long joined the Texas Rangers in 1872, quickly advancing to lieutenant then captain. He was involved in several Indian Battles and captured a number of outlaws before he left the Ranger service in 1880.

• John Long aka: Rivers - Deputized during New Mexico's Lincoln County War for a raid upon the McSween house on July 19, 1878.

• Steve Long, aka: Big Steve - A lawman and outlaw, Long ran the "Bucket of Blood" saloon in Laramie City, Wyoming and appointed himself assistant marshal. Long and his two partners were lynched on October 28, 1868.

• James J. Longrell - Chief of the Indian Police at the San Carolos, Arizona Apache Agency in 1880.

• A.W. Loomis - Served as a U.S. Deputy Marshal in New Mexico Territory.

• H.W. Loomis - Served as a chief U.S. Deputy Marshal in New Mexico Territory and killed train robber Cole Estes on October 2, 1896.

• Willis Anson Loomis (1860-1952) - Served as the city marshal at Leadville, Colorado in 1886 before going to work at the Colorado Penitentiary in Canyon City. Also worked as a detective in Denver, Colorado, and Chief of Police in Everett, Washington and Venice, California.

• Harry Love (1809-1868) - Served as a Texas Ranger in the 1850s before moving to California and becoming Captain of the California Rangers in 1853. He allegedly brought in the head of Joaquin Murrieta, the Mexican outlaw.

• H.M. Love - While serving as a U.S. Deputy Marshal in New Mexico, he was wounded while in pursuit of outlaw Samuel Ketchum on July 16, 1899.

• Thomas D. Love (1862-1934) - A cattleman, Love was elected as the first sheriff of Bordon County, Texas in 1890. He  arrested the notorious outlaw, Bill Cook, in 1895 

• Doctor Lozier - Served as a Texas Ranger in 1896.

• Captain Louis J. Lull, aka: W.J. Allen (18??-1874) - A Pinkerton Agent from Chicago, Illinois, Lull was killed by John Younger near Roscoe, Missouri on March 17, 1874.

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