Movie review: YKMN

Rico says he watched You Know My Name because it was about Bill Tilghman and starred Sam Elliott (who Rico would watch read the phone book), but Marshall Trimble has a review in True West:

Like most Western movies, not that close to the truth.
Researchers have proven many of Bill Tilghman’s exploits are myths, especially his record as a peace officer. Researcher Nancy B. Samuelson writes in Shoot from the Lip: Lives, Legends and Lies of the Three Guardsmen of Oklahoma and U.S. Marshal Nix that Tilghman was corrupt and had been arrested numerous times for running a bawdy house and for gambling while serving as a deputy sheriff.
In the film, Tilghman, while city marshal in Cromwell, Oklahoma, is shot and killed on 1 November 1924, by Federal prohibition agent Wiley Lynn who, drunk and angry. killed Tilghman because he refused to take a bribe.
In reality, Lynn conducted important raids on bootleggers. He shot Tilghman, claiming self-defense, after the lawman blocked a raid. Political heavyweights tried to convict Lynn of murder, but he was acquitted after several people confirmed that Tilghman had been on the take.

Marshall Trimble is Arizona’s official historian, board president of the Arizona Historical Society, and vice president of the Wild West History Association. His latest book is Arizona’s Outlaws and Lawmen, published by History Press in 2015. If you have a question, write: Ask the Marshall, P.O. Box 8008, Cave Creek, AZ 85327 or email him. 

Rico says that Tilghman did enough real things to warrant a movie, history be damned...