How does Bat Masterson’s story compare with Wyatt Earp’s?
Jim Gaines
Orangevale, California
Bat Masterson’s history was every bit as illustrious as Wyatt Earp’s—and in the early 1900s, he was actually more famous than Earp. Why? Masterson had a bigger story to tell.
In 1874, he and a small group of buffalo hunters held off hundreds of Indians at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls in Texas. He then scouted for the U.S. Army and became a Western sheriff of renown. Earp, on the ot
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