A question came up the other day, how does Bat Masterson match up with Wyatt Earp in the history of the Old West? Bat Masterson’s history in the Old West was every bit as illustrious as Wyatt's and in the early 1900's he was actually more famous than Wyatt. Bat also had a bigger story to tell than Wyatt. At the Second Battle of Adobe Walls he was a member of the small group of twenty-eight buffalo hunters who held off hundreds of Comanche and Kiowa warriors when, on June 28, 1874, using a borr


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