[2] However, other historians stress that the Dawes Rolls would not apply to Tom Threepersons, because his family moved to the Canada before they were recorded.

Threepersons claimed that in 1907, his and White's fathers were killed during a fight with cattle rustlers and that the suspects were arrested, but released on bond.

Threepersons and White tracked the suspects for five days through heavy snow toward the Yukon River in Alaska, having to abandon their horses and continue on foot, carrying their weapons and backpacks.

The verifiable historical record of Tom Threepersons begins on the day that he met Black Jack Pershing during the Punitive Expedition.

He was partnered with officer Juan Escontrias, and the two were involved in two shootouts during that time with smugglers, resulting in four suspects being killed, and Threepersons being shot and wounded in the chest during one incident in 1921.

The holster, which included a cutaway top exposing the pistol hammer and trigger guard, became popular and was copied by several other manufacturers.

[9] By 1929, Threepersons was suffering severe headaches from his head injury, and he left law enforcement to start a ranch near Gila, New Mexico.

Following the successful surgery, he moved to Silver City, New Mexico, and spent the rest of his life working as a rancher and hunting guide.

Lawman Threepersons is frequently confused with the Kainai rodeo star, Tom Three Persons, who was born in Canada.

[8] The ninth episode of the second series of the Kraft Suspense Theatre (first broadcast 10 December 1964) was titled Threepersons, and told the story of a Cherokee gunfighter hired by the local prohibition officer on the Texas border to kill a Mexican bootlegger.