Name: Joshua Hawkes
Occupation: U.S. Marshal
Description: 6'2", 210, 27, male, Brown hair/eyes.
Appearance: Your physical description.
Clothing: Boots, black dungarees, white button up shirt, black vest, black Cowboy hat, gold pocket watch, U.S. Marshal's badge.
Weapons: Colt .45/ Winchester 73/ Bowie knife.
Items: Saddle bags/ Canteen/ Duster/ Bedroll/ Tinder box/ pouch of tobacco and papers/ 3 day ration of beans.
Horse: Bay quarter horse gelding, 16.1 hands high
Summary:
In effort to gain Statehood, the Territorial Governor and Mayor of Yornley both petitioned the Federal Government to send Lawmen and Judicial Officers to help curtail the raise in Outlaw activities. When Joshua's friend was sent to Yornley and appointed Territorial Judge, he requested and got Joshua appointed as his Marshal.
History:
Born in Virginia and raised up on a farm by God fearing parents, he learned early both the value of hard work and keeping your word and had every intention of marrying and settling down and living the good, quite life of a Farmer. Until the War between the States broke out in 1861, and not long after they lost the crops to scavenger's both blue and gray, then finally the Farm, which Union Cavalry came and confiscated it in 1863. At the age of seventeen, he lost both his parents to fever and with no land to call his own, and with little prospects, he found himself riding with Jeb Stuarts Virginia Cavalry for the last two years of the War. After the surrender, he rode to the Territory of Texas and fell in with the Rangers chasing down, Renegade Indians, Horse Thieves, Cattle Rustlers and Mexican Bandito's. A few years later when a Judge friend moved to Yornley to become the Territorial Judge, he asked Joshua to come Marshal for him.