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The Resource Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West, Tom Clavin

Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West, Tom Clavin

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"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. The true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) has gone largely untold--lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now"--
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eng
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Large print edition.
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613 pages (large print)
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9781432840358
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Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
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Dodge City
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Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
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Tom Clavin
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Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
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Language
eng
Summary
"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. The true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) has gone largely untold--lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now"--
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Clavin, Thomas
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978.1/76
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  • illustrations
  • maps
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non fiction
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bibliography
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Thorndike Press large print Bill's bookshelf
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  • Earp, Wyatt
  • Masterson, Bat
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Outlaws
  • Peace officers
  • Dodge City (Kan.)
  • Dodge City (Kan.)
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Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West, Tom Clavin
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pr01293804
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23 cm
Edition
Large print edition.
Extent
613 pages (large print)
Form of item
large print
Isbn
9781432840358
Lccn
2017012285
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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illustrations, map
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pr01293804
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Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West, Tom Clavin
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
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volume
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  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
pr01293804
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
Large print edition.
Extent
613 pages (large print)
Form of item
large print
Isbn
9781432840358
Lccn
2017012285
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, map
System control number
pr01293804

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