Born to the Badge was a 2019 Spur Award FinalistShunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier twentysix year old Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods and so he moves to a place where an ironrule is neededampmdashDodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock a runaway prostitute who like Wyatt is searching for a chance at a better life. As assistant marshal in Dodge Wyatt establishes a reputation as an uncompromising peace officer but he knows that police work will never deliver what he really wants wealth and the respect of the upper class. After joining the Black Hills gold rush and then serving a stint as railroad detective in Texas he returns to Kansas only to pin on the badge again and inadvertently forge his path into history.