From Brooklyn to the Badlands: The Double Life of Vincenzo Capone

Fourth in the Pioneer Lawman Series Published in the Cowboy Chronicle, Publication of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, June 2026 Richard “Two- Gun” Hart walked into a Chicago courtroom in late 1951. He looked older than his 59 years and was almost blind. He arrived wearing a ten-gallon cowboy hat he asked to keep on even while testifying. Hart, a frontier lawman during prohibition, was an…