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Aug 17, 2017 · Bat was sworn in that March 28. One reporter, looking for a new angle on the Masterson story, interviewed Bat’s wife, Emma. “If anyone expects to see in her a typical Westerner,” he wrote, “he will be much mistaken. Of medium height, Mrs. Masterson is a woman of retiring disposition.”.
v. t. e. John Henry Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887), better known as Doc Holliday, was a dentist and later a gambler, gunfighter, and a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his role in the events surrounding and his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
Oct 25, 2016 · The New York "Morning Telegraph" hired Masterson as a sportswriter, then a columnist and finally its sports editor. Three times a week, for 18 years, his column entitled "Masterson's Views on Timely Topics" appeared.
My Friend Wyatt Earp. By W.R. (Bat) Masterson in 1907. Wyatt and Josephine Earp near their mining claim outside Vidal, California, 1906. Thirty-Five years ago [1872], that immense stretch of territory extending from the Missouri River west to the Pacific Ocean and from the Brazos River in Texas north to the Red Cloud Agency in Dakota, knew no ...
Jun 12, 2006 · Local tradition says that Bat Masterson surveyed the new town site of 40 acres. After Rath and Reynolds relocated their store, Henry Fleming built a stone building across the creek, and Sweetwater grew into a town of about 150 persons. Tom O’Loughlin opened a restaurant and boardinghouse.
In January 1876 in Sweetwater, Texas, Masterson killed a man and a dance-hall girl in a quarrel and fled back to Dodge City. He spent most of the next decade there. From 1877 to 1879 Masterson was a sheriff in Ford county, and in 1879 he became a deputy U.S. marshal; however, he spent most of his time working as a saloonkeeper and gambler.
Mr. Masterson’s hat measures seven and three-eighths. Wise, cool, wary, he is the born captain of men. Generous to a final dollar, the poor and needy make for him like night birds for a lighthouse. To a courage that is proof, he adds a genius for justice, and carries honesty to the pitch of romanticism.
