Cyrus "Doc" Shores [1844-1934]

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He was a well-respected lawman of the early days on Colorado's Western Slope. He served as the sheriff of Gunnison County when it was still "wild" and was noted as the lawman who captured Alferd Packer, the infamous "Colorado Cannibal." Shores also served as a deputy U.S. marshal, a railroad detective and as chief of police for Salt Lake City, Utah. He rode with Tom Horn when Horn was still on the right side of the law. Shores was the subject of a historical novel published in 1999 by Richard Davis called "A Man to Cross Rivers With." His autobiography, "Memoirs of a Lawman", edited by Wilson Rockwell, was published by Sage Books in 1962. The inscription on his headstone reads: "Western Colorado's most noted frontiersman, pioneer and lawman."

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