Judge Parker complained often to Washington concerning the vast lands he was responsible for in I. T. In 1879, an ancestor of my family, George R. Tucker, was a town marshal of Spanish Fort and read an ad in the paper that Deputy marshals were being hired at Paris. He was hired in 1879.
The jurisdiction of Parker was divided into five districts with Paris being the Eastern District and responsible of Chickasaw Nation in the territory. Deputies were not permitted to go outside their district to arrest anyone. Most of the deputies at Paris were fired for doing so but Tucker remained. Then later he went with Smith and others to WY as a hired gun and still wearing his Deputy Marshal badge. I have written a book on him but not published as it requires some rewrite. I have it on back burner due to other manuscripts I'm working on. Just finished the biography on John Wesley Hardin and will be published by UNT Press June, 2013 titled "A Lawless Breed, John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West. I co-author with Chuck Parsons.