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Bat Masterson: The Biography of one of the West's Most Famous Gunfighters and Marshals
Bat Masterson The Biography of one of the West's Most Famous Gunfighters and Marshals Author:Richard O'Connor "This penetrating biography chips through the hardened myth of Bat Masterson as a frontier gun fighter to reveal him as he was: the personable man of courage and intelligence who hated killings. He was one of the truly outstanding men of America's Wild West and deserved to be raised above the distortions of legend. Richard O'Connor has set do... more »wn the true Masterson story, its details winnowed from history's tall tales and crusty facts. It is a also an account in which facts do not dull the luster of Masterson as an outsized American hero. Masterson as a U.S. marshal in the West and Masterson as a newspaperman in the East are brought within a single frame. Here is the Kansas farm boy, the buffalo hunter, the Army scout, the lawman beside Wyat Earp in Dodge City, the Denver prizefight promoter, the sports editor in New York, and the crusader driving the racketeers from the boxing ring. Bat Masterson, by the author of The Guns of Chkamauga and Company Q, provides new insight into western American history.« less