Beginning of Career as a Lawman
- After being a Texas Ranger for three years, Dallas Stoudenmire disappeared for several years before reappearing in Socorro, New Mexico as the town's Marshal.Dallas Stoudenmire is believed to have gone to Mexico after he disappeared because he was fluent in Spanish while being the El Paso city Marshal. Stoudenmire's brother in law Samuel "Doc" Cummings persuaded Dallas to go to El Paso to fill the vacant spot as the City Marshal. This was when El Paso was in the middle of a lawless stretch and the city council wanted a man with a reputation of being a tough gunfighter. Dallas Stoudenmire did perhaps, more than they wanted him to do. On his first day on the job, he humiliated the ex-Marshal Bill Johnson because Bill Johnson refused to hand over the badge and the keys. He did this by physically turning the ex-marshal upside down, grabbed the keys and throwing him to the ground.