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The Split

The Split

by | Nov 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

Almost five years had passed since the gas-lit world of saloons and gambling halls brought Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday together in Texas. They appear to have enjoyed each other’s company from the outset, but on the night of September 19, 1878, in Dodge City, Kansas,...
Bat Masterson’s Femmes Fatales

Bat Masterson’s Femmes Fatales

by | Oct 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

Bob Wright, one of the earliest residents of Dodge, who stayed on to become the town’s most prominent businessman and political figure, related this first story in his book Dodge City, The Cowboy Capital, published in 1913. Bat Masterson was admired by men for his...
Tragedy and Triumph

Tragedy and Triumph

by | Oct 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

The odyssey that led the Parker clan to the edge of the Texas frontier started far to the east, in the state of Virginia. John Parker, leader of a fundamentalist Baptist church, married Sally White just after the revolutionary war. Their nomadic journey led them to...
A Pistoleer Poet?

A Pistoleer Poet?

by | Aug 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

James Butler Hickok proved on numerous occasions that he was neither gun nor camera shy, and his attraction to the opposite sex is also well known. But few would have imagined that he might also have been a . . . poet? This possibility came to light in September 1985,...
A Deadly Game

A Deadly Game

by | Aug 1, 2001 | Features & Gunfights

WARNING: This excerpt from the recently released Wild Bill Hickok: Deadwood City—End of Trail uses a fictional treatment of the facts derived from the testimony of Carl Mann at the Yankton trial of Jack McCall, and Harry Young’s 1915 Hard Knocks—Life Story of the...