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Bat Masterson

Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806170735
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Bat Masterson written by Robert K. DeArment and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the outlaws, and the lawmen, have been romanticized for more than a hundred years by writers who found it easier to invent history than the research it. "Bat" Masterson was one such character who cast a long shadow across the pages of western history as it has been routinely depicted. "A legend in his own time," he was called in a television series produced in the 1960's. A legend he has become—one firmly fixed in the popular imagination. But in his own time W.B. Masterson was a man, a less-than-perfect creature subject to the same temptations and vices as his fellows, albeit one who, through circumstance and inclination, led an exciting life in an exciting time and place. As buffalo hunter, army scout, peace officer, professional gambler, sportsman, promoter, and newspaperman, Masterson's career was stormy and eventful. Surprising to many readers will be the account of Masterson's career after his peace officer days, during his employment as a sports writer and columnist. The gun-toting western peace officer reputed to have killed more men than Billy the Kid (not so, says DeArment) spent his last years happily in New York City, writing for a nationally known newspaper. This book, the product of more than twenty years of research, separates fact from fiction to extricate the story of his life from the legend that has enmeshed it. It is the most complete biography of Bat Masterson ever written.

Dodge City

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146688262X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Dodge City written by Tom Clavin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller! Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City’s streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset. #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin's Dodge City tells the true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) that has gone largely untold—lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now.

Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson

Author : Bill Markley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493035681
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson written by Bill Markley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which lawman did the most to tame the frontier, Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Neither of them was a saint. At times their actions were not in compliance with the law, and they only served as peace officers for limited portions of their lives. What sets them apart from the thousands of sheriffs and marshals who served on America’s frontier? Did they make more arrests than others? Did they kill large numbers of men? Did they lead adventurous lives? Was it their character? Was there just the right ring to their names that led people to remember them? Did they get the right publicity at the right time? Did they just outlive all the others? Or was it a combination of these factors? This joint biography reveals the intersection of their legacies and attempts to answer the questions about their place in the story of the West. .

Bat Masterson (Dell Comic Reprint)

Author : Gaylord Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616462680
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Bat Masterson (Dell Comic Reprint) written by Gaylord Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (1853-1921) was a notable western figure who was, over the years, gambler, lawman, Army scout, buffalo hunter, and newspaper columnist. A fictionalized account of his life was serialized in the 1958-1961 television series starring Gene Barry. In this black-and-white series, Barry portrayed Masterson as an elegant lady's man seeking adventure in the Wild West, but unlike most gunslingers, Barry's character preferred to use his cane to a gun. Dell Comics issued nine issues of the Bat Masterson comic book from 1959 to 1962 (the first being a test of the title in the Dell Four Color series before the strip was given its own series). This collection includes the first four issues.

Gunfighter in Gotham

Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806189096
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Gunfighter in Gotham written by Robert K. DeArment and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New YorkSun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of history’s great ironies, as Robert K. DeArment relates in this engaging new book. William Barclay “Bat” Masterson spent the first half of his adult life in the West, planting the seeds for his later legend as he moved from Texas to Kansas and then Colorado. In Denver his gambling habit and combative nature drew him to the still-developing sport of prizefighting. Masterson attended almost every important match in the United States from the 1880s to 1921, first as a professional gambler betting on the bouts, and later as a promoter and referee. Ultimately, Bat stumbled into writing about the sport. In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second career from a column in the New YorkMorning Telegraph. Bat’s articles not only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war, crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted throughout the country and abroad. He counted President Theodore Roosevelt among his friends and readers. This follow-up to DeArment’s definitive biography of the Old West legend narrates the final chapter of Masterson’s storied life. Far removed from the sweeping western plains and dusty cowtown streets of his younger days, Bat Masterson, in New York City, became “a ham reporter,” as he called himself, “a Broadway guy.”

Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp

Author : Elmer Richard Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890437640
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp written by Elmer Richard Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp (whose lives were very closely intertwined) spent a considerable portion of their careers in Colorado. Bat and Doc were involved in the Royal Gorge Railroad War in 1878-79. Bat was a peace officer in Trinidad, Colorado. Wyatt and Doc came to Pueblo, Colorado, just a few months after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Read about the famous trio and their various travels through Colorado's mining towns.

Bat Masterson's Last Words the Newspaper Years New York October 1921

Author : Scott Cuffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781312967953
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)

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Book Synopsis Bat Masterson's Last Words the Newspaper Years New York October 1921 by : Scott Cuffe

Download or read book Bat Masterson's Last Words the Newspaper Years New York October 1921 written by Scott Cuffe and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many decades of his life, Bat Masterson wrote for publications in Colorado and New York City. Collected here for the first time since his original newspaper runs are his final writings from the month of October 1921, from his New York City Sport-writing journalist career. Bat spoke his mind and wrote on such topics as his past memoirs and current affairs like Prohibition, and especially about Prize Boxing which was a true love of his.

Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier

Author : W. B. (Bat) Masterson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486131319
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier written by W. B. (Bat) Masterson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bat Masterson's illustrated biographies of legendary gunslingers Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short, Bill Tilghman, Ben Thompson, and others paint a vivid portrait of the Old West, a world of sharpshooters, cattle rustlers, and Dodge City justice.

The Notorious Luke Short

Author : Jack DeMattos
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415948
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Notorious Luke Short written by Jack DeMattos and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often times the smaller the man, the harder the punch--this adage was true in the case of diminutive Luke Short, whose brief span of years played out in the Wild West. His adventures began as a teenage cowboy who followed the trail from Texas to the Kansas railheads. He then served as a scout for the U.S. Army during the Indian wars and, finally, he perfected his skills as a gambler in locations that included Leadville, Tombstone, Dodge City, and Fort Worth. In 1883, in what became known as the "Dodge City War," he banded together with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and others to protect his ownership interests in the Long Branch Saloon--an event commemorated by the famous "Dodge City Peace Commission" photograph. The irony is that Luke Short is best remembered for being the winning gunfighter in two of the most celebrated showdowns in Old West history: the shootout with Charlie Storms in Tombstone, Arizona, and the showdown against Jim Courtright in Fort Worth, Texas. He would have hated that. During his lifetime, Luke Short became one of the best known sporting men in the United States, and one of the wealthiest. He had been a partner in the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, as well as the White Elephant in Fort Worth. He became friends with other wealthy sporting men, such as William H. Harris, Jake Johnson, and Bat Masterson, who helped broaden his gaming interests to include thoroughbred horse racing and boxing. Before he died he would become a familiar figure in Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, and Saratoga Springs, where he raced his string of horses. He traveled with other wealthy sporting men in private railroad cars to attend heavyweight championship fights. Luke Short was always a little man dealing in big games. He married the beautiful Hattie Buck, who could turns heads at all the top resorts they visited as man and wife. Jack DeMattos and Chuck Parsons have researched deeply into all records to produce the first serious biography of Luke Short, revealing in full the epitome of a sporting man of the Wild West.

Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier

Author : W. B. (Bat) Masterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420971781
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier written by W. B. (Bat) Masterson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1907 as a series of articles in "Human Life" magazine, "Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier" is the fascinating first-hand account of these famous Americans by Bat Masterson. Born Bartholemew William Barclay Masterson in Canada in 1853, Bat Masterson led an amazing life as a U.S. Army scout, professional gambler, and lawman in the American Old West. He went to find adventure in the frontier as a young man and soon earned distinction as a buffalo hunter. He eventually spent time as the sheriff in Dodge City, Kansas and was involved in several well-known shootouts. It was during these times that Masterson met some of the most important gunslingers in history. These accounts, written decades after Masterson moved back to civilization and worked as a writer and journalist, tell the incredible stories of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Ben Thompson, Luke Short, and Bill Tilghman. "Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier" remains an important historical document of five famous American gunfighters and a fascinating and entertaining account of the Wild West. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Poker & Pop Culture

Author : Martin Harris
Publisher : D&B Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191286200X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Poker & Pop Culture written by Martin Harris and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.

Bat Masterson's Ogallala Bust Out

Author : G. R. Williamson
Publisher : Indian Head Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bat Masterson's Ogallala Bust Out written by G. R. Williamson and published by Indian Head Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true account of the rescue of Billy Thompson by Bat Masterson in 1875. Billy Thompson had been shot up in a saloon in Ogallala, Nebraska and following the shooting the law held him under guard at the town's only hotel, The Ogallala House, until he could be tried and hung – which was a forgone conclusion of all of the residents. His brother Ben Thompson, a noted gambler and pistol fighter, was convinced that the mob in Ogallala was waiting for him to come after Billy. He had reason to believe that if he showed up they intended to stage a necktie party for two. Hedging his bets Ben called in an old friend, Bat Masterson, to free his brother from the clutches of what was reputed to be the crooked law of Ogallala. What followed was a dramatic (and often comical) rescue by Masterson and with the help of Buffalo Bill Cody the pair safely made it back to Kansas. One of the great true stories of the Old West as told by G.R. Williamson, a historical writer living in Kerrville, Texas. He is the author of The Texas Pistoleers (2011) and Frontier Gambling (2012).

The History of Winchester Firearms 1866-1992

Author : Thomas Henshaw
Publisher : Academic Learning Company LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780832905032
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The History of Winchester Firearms 1866-1992 written by Thomas Henshaw and published by Academic Learning Company LLC. This book was released on 1993 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text present the history of the Winchester firearm, including their rifles, shotguns and revolvers beginning in 1866 to 1992.

Thunder over the Prairie

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762755954
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Thunder over the Prairie written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dora Hand was in a deep sleep. Her bare legs were exposed despite her thick blankets, and a mass of long, auburn hair stretched over her pillow and flowed off the side of her flimsy mattress. A framed, charcoal portrait of an elderly couple hung above her bed on the faded wallpaper and kept company with her slumber.

Wild West Lawmen and Outlaws

Author : Ryan P. Randolph
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1404255443
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Wild West Lawmen and Outlaws written by Ryan P. Randolph and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the history of the lawmen and outlaws who played an integral part in the building of the American West.

Learwife

Author : J.R. Thorp
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838852867
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Learwife written by J.R. Thorp and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021 'Seductive . . . Gorgeous' The Times 'Gives voice to one of fiction's most conspicuously absent women' i Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen. Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend? And what will become of her now? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice – one upon which her destiny rests.

Dodge City

Author : William B. Shillingberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Dodge City written by William B. Shillingberg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous cattle town of the trail-driving era, Dodge City, Kansas, holds a special allure for western historians and enthusiasts alike. Wm. B. Shillingberg now goes beyond the violence for which the town became notorious, more fully documenting its early history by uncovering the economic, political, and social forces that shaped Dodge. The author cuts through legend and myth to depict a Dodge City that few people really know. He takes readers back to the southwestern Kansas frontier and traces a town's evolution from a military site for protecting Santa Fe commerce, to a wild and lawless buffalo hunters' rendezvous, to a regional freighting center and the primary shipping point for Texas cattle on the central plains. Amid all this activity a community sprang up in 1872 and was still stumbling toward maturity fourteen years later when the great herds no longer came. Shillingberg describes this transformation of place and purpose, along with its attendant political machinations and business fervor, revealing singular personalities, social turmoil, and a local economy in flux. Along the way, the book offers new perspectives on the Battle of Adobe Walls, the constant maneuvering of railroad moguls and cattle barons, and the exploits of such legendary figures as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, from city records to personal papers, Dodge City: The Early Years, 1872-1886 surpasses previous accounts of the town by depicting complex individuals and events in greater depth and detail. It shows us a community concerned with more than brothels, saloons, and gunplay. It will stand as the authoritative history of this quintessential western town.