Dodge (August 29, 1854 — December 16, 1938) was an undercover Wells Fargo detective, a constable in Tombstone, Arizona, and a Texas cattleman.
[1] As a young man, Dodge learned to drive two-, four-, and six-horse hitches, and "fast freight handling fruit into the mining camps."
In December 1879, he was working in Tombstone, Arizona, and recommended that Wyatt Earp be hired as a guard and messenger for the stage line.
[6] His diaries describe dozens of his cases, including stage robberies, train holdups, long pursuits across the badlands, and even a lawsuit against Wells Fargo for "delay to a corpse".
Dodge later teamed up with Heck Thomas to hunt down outlaws in Kansas and Oklahoma, and was personally involved in the investigations that led to the end of the Doolin and Dalton Gangs.