One of the problems Bat Masterson has in terms of his Old West legend is he is typecast as a city slicker, always wearing a derby. But the real Bat...
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Bringing the Lord to Dodge
Pastor Wright brought a different peace to the Wickedest Town in the West. O.W. Wright decided to bring the Lord to Dodge City. He arrived there in...
Lay Lady Gay
January 24, 1876 | Bat Masterson vs. Melvin King Mollie Protects Her Man Three Different Versions of the Fight Fresh off the killing fields, some...
Picking the Wrong Horse
Bill Tilghman lost the job of his dreams by backing the wrong candidate Bill Tilghman may have been a great lawman, but as a politician he left much...
Truth Be Known
OLD VAQUERO SAYING "The wages of sin are unreported." QUOTES "The truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." -William...
The Top Dog
James H. Kelley was a force in Dodge City. James H. “Dog” Kelley was a key player in Dodge City, Kansas in the 1870s. The English-native came to...
She Followed Her Heart And it proved to be a deadly mistake for Mollie Brennan.
Mollie Brennan is best know for being shot to death by Melvin King in Sweetwater, Texas. Bat Masterson, wounded by the same bullet that ended...
Ask the Marshall – Bat Masterson: Armed and Dangerous
How many of Bat Masterson’s Colt SAA revolvers are known to exist, and how many did he own over the years? I have read that he possibly owned seven...
Masterson On The Run Bat was cornered by a group of gunmen
June 11, 1879, Bat Masterson and about 60 hired guns take over a railroad roundhouse in Pueblo, Colorado. They represent the Santa Fe Railroad in...
The Calm Before Storms Bat Masterson tried to stop a gunfight…
Bat Masterson tried to get between Charlie Storms and Luke Short and stop a gunfight—and failed. Storms and Short, both gamblers, got into an...
Bat Masterson: Hero Or Rogue? Like all those western figures Bat Masterson was a product of his times and should be judged by the times in which he lived...
Like all those western figures Bat Masterson was a product of his times and should be judged by the times in which he lived. Like the Earp brothers,...
The Best of Butch’s Wild Bunch
How the real outlaws who rode and robbed from Montana to Bolivia became cinema heroes.