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BAT MASTERSON:
TWO WORLDS OF BAT MASTERSON
by Don Crowley
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William Bartholomew “Bat” Masterson (1853- or
1856-1921) was a lawman, soldier, gambler and writer, a man belonging
solidly in both the Old West and the modern East Coast. At a young age
Masterson, like so many others of his time, left home to hunt buffalo
on the grassy plains of the West. On June 27, 1874, he took place in
what would become the Second Battle of Adobe Walls at Adobe Walls,
Texas. The Southern Plains tribes of the area surrounded the three
adobe buildings at the center of town and, at dawn, they attacked.
Masterson and 28 other settlers barricaded themselves in and fought
through windows and cracks in the walls. Miraculously, when the dust
settled the next day, the Indians had given up the fight and the
settlers had won.
In his later years, Masterson became interested in boxing and
athletics and began to write a sports column for the Denver paper
George’s Weekly. When President Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Marshal
for the southern district of New York, Masterson took his writing with
him and began a column for the New York Morning Telegraph. He died in
his office at the Telegraph of a heart attack in 1921, his last column
still unfinished on the typewriter.
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