Corey Hart (Richard Hart’s great-grandson)

If he couldn't use his gun, he would use his fist to apprehend these criminals and bootleggers. That was something he really prided himself with. In this instance, it went wrong.

selected two of them to go to kind of a bootleg operation and try to score some alcohol.

The idea was that as soon as they would come out, he and another officer that was with him would then make the arrest.

So he's actually out on the railing board telling this bootlegger to stop. He wouldn't stop, so he started firing shots into the air. And then the car that they were chasing sped off.

In an attempt to try to stop that car by trying to take out the tires.

He actually shot the driver through the mouth, and so when it came to the vehicle, it realized, oh, this is not the person that they were actually trying to chase.

Tried to take that individual to the hospital, but it was a lethal shot.

And then... Then found out that this individual was also a World War I veteran, was married, had a child that was very young, so less than a year old, and was a hero to the community for being that World War I veteran, was very well liked.

He had to have a court appearance because they were charging him with manslaughter.

And so he was under a lot of heat, so he had to lay low.

Surprisingly, with the entire community against him and him fearing for his life, it was the Women's Christian Temperance Union came to his defense, and so they were able to pay for 2 Gunhart's attorney, to give him an attorney.

Saying that by putting him, by putting a prohibition agent, Dugan Hart, on trial for manslaughter, it's making him a martyr of prohibition.

From the beginning, she had fought for... "...these fearless, high-integrity men that were willing to do this very dangerous job that the majority of the U.S. were not in favor of."

I think that that really did strike him hard. Here was something that he was proud of, being two-gun, always getting the man, using tough guy ways to get him.

He was forced to pay back essentially his salary for that crime and saying that he was careless and reckless in his behavior.

Homer is very close to the Missouri River. When Richard arrived, there was a flood.

What they didn't realize is that the car that they were in was also beginning to be overtaken by that flood.

Kathleen Winch was in the vehicle that was floating away, but Richard and another individual in Homer were able to jump in and pull that car to safety.

So it was his bravery that really caught the eye of Kathleen and said that this is the guy that I want to be with.

He loved to show off. And so if he could have the opportunity to show off his sharpshooting skills, he would. There are rumors that he would shoot apples off the top of people's heads. If you think of Richard Hart, it's a thing. It's always two guns. It's two guns, you know? And so why are you not going to call someone like that Two-Gun Hart? I mean, it just fits.

But afterwards... As he's heading out west, he just gets off on this stop in Nebraska and sees this town Homer and knew this was a point far enough west where that lifestyle still existed. So he could continue this mission in his life to be a cowboy.

Governor recognized the fact that if we're going to have prohibition agents, we need people that are fearless. And Richard Hart was somebody who fit that to a tee.

I believe it was around 1920, and it was a really, really bad rainstorm.

He's trying to take the man to Lincoln, Nebraska, but... He got north and south messed up, so instead of going back to take this criminal in, he ended up going, I believe, towards the South Dakota border.

But when he gets there... Found out that they wouldn't book either of them.

It was really discouraging for him. It was the pinnacle of him understanding how much corruption there was. This is not my law. And that was the excuse that a lot of people used.