FRONTIER MARSHAL MART DUGGAN RULED ROWDY LEADVILLE WITH AN IRON HAND

Marshal Mart Duggan is considered one of the most underrated gunmen of the Old West.  Learn a bit of Colorado history and how Leadville's colorful past in the late 1800's brought together familiar characters such as Frank and Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, Oscar Wilde, and more.  Leadville was lawless and boasted of 15 to 50 thousand people.  Mayor Horace Tabor approached the little blue eyed Irishman to take over as Marshal.

Gail is a Denver native.  She is married to Don, a university professor at Regis University in the Criminology Department.  She has two daughters and 4 grandchildren.

As a third generation bookbinder, in a 5 generation business at Denver Bookbinding Company, she keeps busy with the daily operations and product development.  She is the president of the Mile Hi Optimist Club, that turned 100 years old in 2016.  She was a Denver Police Reserve Officer for the past 25 years in the patrol division, and just retired in July 2019.  In her younger years, she raced show room stock with Sports Car Club of America  and on one occasion was on the race track in Hallett Oklahoma with Paul Newman for one of the races. She served as  Mrs. Denver in 1996.