Willard Peck (1789-1858), also known as Bill Sharp, was an American outlaw of the Wild West who served as town sheriff of Daughtrey, Texas during the 1850s in the Wild West era. In 1855, he rustled cattle from the B.A. Corrigan Cattle Company of Lubbock, resulting in circuit court judge Henry Allen Laudermilk of Austin signing a warrant for Peck's death or capture. Peck later fled to the small town of Daughtrey, where he assumed the alias "Bill Sharp" and was elected the town's sheriff. In 1858, the bounty hunter King Schultz tracked Peck down to Daughtrey, where he lured him out by visiting an inn with his slave Django Freeman, causing the panicked, racist innkeeper to call for the sheriff. When Peck had the two men leave the inn, Schultz publicly shot Peck in the stomach and again in the head. When US Marshal Gill Tatum arrived to arrest Schultz and Freeman, Schultz revealed Peck's true identity to the whole town and collected his $200 bounty.
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