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Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West / Tom Clavin.
By the 1870s, Dodge City, Kansas was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. The true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures is told, including the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way. The true story of how two gunfighters brought law and order to the most depraved and criminal town in the nation during 1870. This account of Wyatt and Bat's adventures throughout the West - along with the characters they enountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) - offers an absorbing, fun and revealing look at a wildly entertaining chapter in American history that no reader will soon forget. - back cover
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250190727
- ISBN: 125019072X
- Physical Description: xiv, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
- Edition: St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : St Martin's Paperbacks, 2019.
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
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Summary:
By the 1870s, Dodge City, Kansas was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. The true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures is told, including the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way. The true story of how two gunfighters brought law and order to the most depraved and criminal town in the nation during 1870. This account of Wyatt and Bat's adventures throughout the West - along with the characters they enountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) - offers an absorbing, fun and revealing look at a wildly entertaining chapter in American history that no reader will soon forget. - back cover
