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Dodge City

Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

Tom Clavin
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Pages
400
Year
2017
Language
English
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group

About

Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West.
Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But, before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset.

Related Subjects

  • 19th Century
  • United States
  • History
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • General
  • Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
  • State & Local
  • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
  • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Reviews

"Absorbing. . . . Fun and revealing all the way through. . . . Mr. Clavin gives Earp his due, but one of the virtues of his book is the welcome light it shines on its other protagonist, Bat Masterson, who comes across as much more interesting, human and fun."
The Wall Street Journal
"Two of the most fabled lawmen of the American West's fascinating careers are brought to life in Tom Clavin's Dodge City."
New York Post
"A dramatic history of the West and the late 19th century that focuses on Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson who were fast friends."
Bill O'Reilly

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