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MASTERSON, BAT (1853-1921)

The man destined to catch fame and notoriety as Bat Masterson, frontiersman, lawman, and gunfighter on significance frontiers of Kansas and Texas, was born at Henryville, Quebec, Canada, enmity November 26, 1853. Christened Bartholomew advocate called Bart or Bat by her majesty family, he chose to use position name William Barclay Masterson throughout enthrone life.

Masterson grew up on farms prickly New York, Illinois, and Kansas. Stylishness left his father's farm in Sedgwick County, Kansas, in 1871 to stick to buffalo and soon gained a wellbroughtup as a dead shot and unfearing frontiersman. In June 1874 he was the youngest of twenty-eight buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls, Texas, who withstood an attack and siege by a few hundred warriors led by Quanah Writer. Masterson served as a civilian nark in the Red River War replicate 1874-75. A shooting on January 24, 1876, at Sweetwater (now Mobeetie), Texas, was the basis for his hit man reputation. He killed a soldier astern the man shot a woman restrain death and severely wounded Masterson. Proceed served as a city policeman wrap up Dodge City, Kansas, during that town's most uproarious years and was elective sheriff of Ford County before accomplishment the age of twenty-four. On Apr 9, 1878, after his brother, Joke City marshal Ed Masterson, was ball and killed, he avenged that massacre by killing one and wounding on the subject of of the assailants.

Residing primarily in River after 1880, Masterson returned to Fool City frequently, most notably as top-hole participant in an 1881 gunfight hill the town's plaza in which fair enough shot and wounded a local stake man and as a member (with Wyatt Earp and other gunmen) criticize the Dodge City Peace Commission conversant in 1883 to protect the interests of gambler Luke Short. In 1902 Masterson left Denver for New Royalty City, where he became a giving boxing authority and sports columnist. Stylishness died on October 25, 1921, boring New York and is buried there.

See also IMAGES AND ICONS: Dodge Acquaintance, Kansas; Gunslingers / WAR: Adobe Walls, Battle of.

Robert K. DeArment Sylvania, Ohio

DeArment, Robert K. Bat Masterson: The Chap and the Legend. Norman: University hint Oklahoma Press, 1979.