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Deputies Bat Masterson (standing) and Wyatt Earp in Dodge City, 1876. The scroll on Earp's chest is a cloth pin-on badge George Hoyt (spelled sometimes "Hoy") and other drunken cowboys shot their guns wildly around 3:00 am on July 26, 1878, including three shots into Dodge City's Comique Theater, causing comedian Eddie Foy, Sr. to throw himself ...
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250071484. Dykstra, Robert R. The Cattle Towns. University of Nebraska Press, 1968. Dykstra, Robert R. and JoAnn Manfra. Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West. University Press of Kansas, 2017. online review. Miner, Craig.
Kelley had appointed Charlie Bassett as sheriff on December 15, 1877. At Kelley request Larry Deger city marshal was removed by the city council. James Masterson and Neil Brown were appointed as marshal and assistant marshal of Dodge City on November 4, 1879, after Bassett and Wyatt stepped down. [1] Wyatt Earp departed Dodge City in 1879.
The Dodge City War was a bloodless conflict that took place between Luke Short and the Dodge City mayor, who tried to force Short to close the Long Branch Saloon and leave town. Luke called on several friends, including Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson , who supported him during his confrontation from April 28 to June 7, 1883.
Back in the days when the West was young and wild, 'Wild Bill' fought and loved and adventured with such famous frontiersmen as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp." [9] In reality, Earp was a virtually unknown assistant marshal in Dodge City when Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in 1876. [10] Earp served as a technical adviser on the film. [10]
On Tuesday, Dec. 5, Jason Kelce's wife, who shares three children with the Philadelphia Eagles center, posted a heartfelt video featuring their eldest daughter, Wyatt.
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When citizens of Dodge City learned the Earps had been charged with murder after the gunfight, they sent letters endorsing and supporting the Earps to Judge Wells Spicer. [6] John Clum, owner of The Tombstone Epitaph and mayor of Tombstone while Earp was a gambler and lawman there, described him in his book It All Happened in Tombstone.