In the early 1900s, Bat Masterson left the wilds of the West for the bright lights of New York. But the Wild West spirit never really left him. That’s the take of Robert DeArment in his new book Broadway Bat: Gunfighter in Gotham (Talei Publishers, 2006), a biography of Masterson’s 19 years in New York City. DeArment first released a biography on Masterson in 1979, in which he makes very clear his stand on the lawman: “There is no hard evidence that Bat Masterson ever killed anyone.”
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