Frontier Lawmen Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West, (Paperback)

from Daniel.Estes

The western is America's mythology. Many of our shared stories arose out of the western-of civilization clashing with an untamed, lawless frontier. And yet, these tales did not come from nothing. They were inspired by real people, real events and real places. Dodge City, Kansas towards the end of...

from melydia

An attempt to filter through all the legends and embellishments and outright fabrications to tell the stories of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. I've never been all that interested in the Wild West, but this cut through all the sensationalism to tell the stories of the people who really lived, and ...

from meandmybooks

This started off very well, and I thoroughly enjoyed the first half or so. Tom Clavin tells the stories of the early years and careers of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Charlie Bassett, Bill Tilghman, Doc Holliday and others, and their part in the "civilizing" of the west, in a style reminiscent of c...

from SCRH

A nice read about a USA city of the wild west and of two characters who helped tame it. Details are collected from numerous sources and presented as "fact," when other books on the subjects contain too much "fiction." The book in enhance with the inclusion of a number of glossy black and white ph...

from gpangel

Dodge City: Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin is a 2018 St. Martin's Griffin publication. This is an extremely interesting history of the time Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson spent in Dodge City, Kansas. The landscape and atmosphere of the city, is v...