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092    978.176|bCLA 
100 1  Clavin, Tom,|d1954-|eauthor. 
245 10 Dodge City :|bWyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest
       town in the American West /|cTom Clavin. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2017. 
300    384 pages:|billustrations; maps;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 2  "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Earp, Wyatt,|d1848-1929. 
600 10 Masterson, Bat,|d1853-1921. 
650  0 Peace officers|zKansas|zDodge City|vBiography. 
650  0 Outlaws|zKansas|zDodge City|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Frontier and pioneer life|zKansas|zDodge City. 
651  0 Dodge City (Kan.)|xHistory|y19th century. 
651  0 Dodge City (Kan.)|vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft