Nick Poppy at the New York
Post offers a piece on Tom Clavin’s book on Dodge City, Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson
Any man fool enough to look
for trouble in 1870s Dodge City could count on two things: finding it, and
finding himself knocked over the head by the butt of a gun. And if he was
especially unlucky or stupid, he could find a third thing: himself full of lead.
The infamous Kansas cow town
had bloody beginnings, and violence, or the threat of it, was rarely far from
mind. It started with buffalo. The seemingly endless herds on the nearby
plains, coupled with demand for skins and tongues (considered a delicacy back
East), birthed a buffalo hunting industry. And that industry, in turn, created
a leathery class of buffalo hunters — skilled marksmen who could shoot from the
saddle, subsist in harsh conditions and not shy from the sight of blood.
Out of these hunters’ ranks
came two of the most fabled lawmen of the American West: Wyatt Earp and Bat
Masterson, whose fascinating careers are brought to life in Tom Clavin’s “Dodge
City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West.”
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