Dodge City
Page 36
A month after her husband’s death, Emma wrote to a friend, “I hope I will die soon to be with him.” But she would live quietly for another eleven years, first at the Martha Washington Hotel, then at the Hotel Stratford. She died alone there in July 1932, two days after her seventy-fifth birthday, and was buried next to Bat.
In 1910, there had been one last visit to Dodge City. Bat was returning from covering the boxing battle between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada. On a July morning, the train steamed through southwest Kansas. Bat would later write in his newspaper column that during the last leg of the trip, down the Arkansas River Valley from Pueblo to Dodge City, seeing the vast, grass-filled prairie he had first witnessed four decades earlier, “I could not help wondering at the marvelous change that had come over the country in the last twenty years. As I looked from the car window, I saw in all directions groves of trees, orchards and fields bearing abundant crops of corn, wheat and alfalfa. The idea that the plains of Western Kansas could ever be made fertile was something I had never dreamed of.”
Acknowledgments
While working on this book, many kind and generous people stepped forward to provide assistance with the research, fact-checking, and double-checking, along with support and encouragement. The concept of telling the stories of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson when they were young and serving as lawmen in Dodge City, plus their impact on frontier justice in its formative years and the colorful characters whom they came in contact with, was greeted with enthusiasm, much to my benefit.
To me, reference librarians and curators at historical collections are the people who truly keep nonfiction writers in business. No wonder, then, that in previous books, I’ve placed them at or near the top of the list of people and others in similar positions who hold the keys to their collections of fascinating material and are available to help just for the asking. I will certainly not stray from that token of gratitude here. Arizona Historical Society, Boot Hill Museum, Denver Public Library, Dodge City Public Library, Kansas Heritage Center, and Kansas State Historical Society (especially Nancy Sherbert) are simply wonderful repositories of information. Dodge City would not exist without them and their staffs. On the local level, doing the heavy lifting for me after I cast a wide research net was the John Jermain Memorial Library, especially Sue Mullin.
Invaluable contemporary information was provided by several of the daily and weekly newspapers of the time. At the top of that list were the Dodge City Times and the Ford County Globe, but also providing eyewitness and sometimes amusing descriptions of events and people were the Atchison Patriot, Atwood Pioneer, Barbour County Mail, Daily Kansas City Journal, The Eureka Herald, The Girard Press, The Hutchinson News, Inland Tribune, Junction City Statesman, The Kansas City Evening Star, The Kansas Daily Commonwealth, Leavenworth Daily Commercial, The New York Times, St. Louis Western Journal of Commerce, Stillwater News Press, The Tombstone Epitaph, The Topeka Daily Capital, and The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.). I am grateful for their editors and reporters for their efforts in the evolution of journalism in the United States—and for having some fun while they were at it.
I want to express my appreciation to the members of the Western Writers of America for being champions of the truth about the American West. Some of them write for such enjoyable and reliable publications as True West, Wild West, and various state and regional publications, and the effort to combine smart and thorough scholarship with telling darn good tales is truly inspiring.
A big thank-you goes to Nancy Jo Trauer of Dodge City. When I “asked around” for someone who would be able to read an early draft of the manuscript and give me incisive feedback, Nancy Jo was the one recommended. I am very glad I followed that advice. Also, the supportive Sally McKee of Brighton, Michigan, was an early reader and was generous in her comments.
My editor, Marc Resnick, was a joy to work with, always supportive and encouraging and available for any necessary hand-holding. Sally Richardson, Tracy Guest, Rebecca Lang, Jaime Coyne, and the rest of the team at St. Martin’s Press have been generous with their time and I am grateful for their efforts on behalf of this book. Hand-holding has also been a specialty for quite a few years now of Scott Gould of RLR Associates. Most of all, the embrace of family and friends—you know who you are—makes all the difference in any writer’s life, especially mine.
Bibliography
BOOKS
Alderson, Maxine. A Frontier Church: A History of the First Presbyterian Church, Dodge City (1872–1884). Dodge City: Kansas Heritage Center, 1948.
Barra, Allen. Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.
Bell, Bob Boze. Classic Gunfights. Vol. 2. Tri-Star Boze Publications, 2013.
Brown, Dee. Trail Driving Days. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952.
Carter, Samuel III. Cowboy Capital of the World. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
Chaput, Don. The Earp Papers: In a Brother’s Image. Encampment, WY: Affiliated Writers of America, 1994.
______. Virgil Earp: Western Peace Officer. Encampment, WY: Affiliated Writers of America, 1994.
Collins, Robert. Kansas Train Tales: A Collection of Railroad History. Create Space, 2009.
Cox, William. Luke Short and His Era. New York: Doubleday, 1961.
DeArment, Robert. Bat Masterson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
DeMattos, Jack. Mysterious Gunfighter: The Story of Dave Mather. College Station, TX: Creative Publishing, 1992.
Dixon, Olive K. The Life of “Billy” Dixon. Dallas: P. L. Turner, 1914.
Dodge, Colonel Richard Irving. Our Wild Indians: 33 Years’ Personal Experience. New York: Archer House, 1959.
Drury, Bob, and Tom Clavin. The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Dykstra, Robert R. The Cattle Towns: A Social History of the Kansas Cattle Trading Centers. New York: Knopf, 1968.
Estleman, Loren D. Bloody Season. New York: Jove, 1999.
Faulk, Odie B. Dodge City: The Most Western Town of All. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Foy, Eddie, and Alvin F. Harlow. Clowning Through Life. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928.
Guinn, Jeff. Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015.
Gwynne, S. C. Empire of the Summer Moon. New York: Scribner, 2010.
Haley, J. Evetts. Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951.
Haywood, C. Robert. Trails South: The Wagon-Road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
______. Victorian West. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1991.
Herring, Hal. Famous Firearms of the Old West. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2011.
Hickey, Michael M. The Death of Warren Baxter Earp: A Closer Look. Honolulu, HI: Talei Publishers, 2000.
Isenberg, Andrew C. Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life. New York: Hill and Wang, 2013.
Jahns, Pat. The Frontier World of Doc Holliday. New York: Hastings House, 1957.
Lake, Stuart N. Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931.
Love, Nat. Life and Adventures of Nat Love; Better Known in Cattle Country as “Deadwood Dick.” Self-published memoir, 1907.
Lynn, Alvin R. Kit Carson and the First Battle of the Adobe Walls. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2014.
Masterson, W. B. (Bat). Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2009.
McMurtry, Larry. The Last Kind Words Saloon. New York: Liveright, 2014.
Meyers, E. C. Mattie: Wyatt Earp’s Secret Second Wife. Blaine, WA: Hancock House, 2010.
Miller, Floyd. Bill Tilghman: Marshal of the Last Frontier. New York: Doubleday, 1968.
Miller, Nyle, and Joseph Snell. Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns, 1867–1886. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963.
______. Why the West Wa
s Wild. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.
Miner, H. Craig. Wichita: The Early Years, 1865–80. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Monaghan, Jay. The Great Rascal: The Life and Adventures of Ned Buntline. New York: Bonanza Books, 1951.
Monahan, Sherry. Mrs. Earp: The Wives and Lovers of the Earp Brothers. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2013.
Nash, Jay Robert. Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen & Outlaws. New York: Da Capo, 1994.
O’Connor, Richard. Bat Masterson. New York: Doubleday, 1957.
______. Young Bat Masterson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
Oliva, Leo. Fort Dodge: Sentry of the Western Plains. Topeka: Kansas Historical Society, 2001.
Parker, Robert B. Gunman’s Rhapsody. New York: Putnam, 2001.
Peavy, Charles D. Charles A. Siringo, a Texas Picaro. Austin, TX: Steck-Vaugh, 1967.
Pierce, Dale. Wild West Characters. Phoenix, AZ: Golden West, 1991.
Randisi, Robert J. The Ham Reporter. New York: Doubleday, 1986.
Rath, Ida Ellen. Early Ford County. Newton, KS: Mennonite Press, 1964.
Roberts, Gary L. Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Rosa, Joseph G. Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier 1840–1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
Sawey, Orlan. Charles A. Siringo. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981.
Shillingberg, W. Dodge City: The Early Years, 1872–1886. Norman, OK: Arthur Clark Co., 2009.
Siringo, Charles A. A Texas Cowboy. New York: William D. Sloane Associates, 1950.
Strate, David K. Sentinel to the Cimarron: The Frontier Experience of Fort Dodge, Kansas. Dodge City, KS: High Plains Publishers, 1970.
Stiles, T. J. Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 2002.
Tanner, Ogden. The Ranchers. New York: Time-Life Books, 1977.
Tefertiller, Casey. Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Thompson, George G. Bat Masterson: The Dodge City Years. Language and Literature Series, no. 1, Topeka: Kansas State Print Plant, 1943.
True West Magazine, ed. True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2005.
Turner, Alford E., ed. The Earps Talk. College Station, TX: Creative Publishing, 1980.
Utley, Robert. Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. Lincoln, NE: Bisen Books, 1991.
Vestal, Stanley. Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns. New York: Harper & Row, 1952.
Webb, Dave. Adventures with the Santa Fe Trail. Dodge City, KS: Kansas Heritage Center, 1989.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
Wright, Robert M. Dodge City: The Cowboy Capital and the Great Southwest. CreateSpace, 2014.
Young, Fred. Dodge City, Up Through a Century. Dodge City, KS: First Edition, 1972.
ARTICLES
Augherton, Tom. “Chalkley.” True West, July 2015.
“Bat Masterson.” findagrave.com. 2001.
“Bat Masterson: Dodge City Lawman.” kansashistory.us.
Boardman, Mark. “The ‘Hang ’em High’ Judge.” True West, September 2015.
______. “Wild Bill and the Englishman.” True West, August 2015.
Boggs, Johnny D. “Must See, Must Read.” Wild West, August 2015.
Brand, Peter. “Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Posse.” historynet.com, January 29, 2007.
“Churches in Old Dodge City.” kansashistory.us.
DeArment, Robert K. “Bat Masterson.” Wild West, June 2001.
DeMattos, Jack, and Chuck Parsons. “The Man Behind the Dodge City War.” True West, July 2015.
Dworkin, Mark. “Charlie Siringo, Letter Writer.” WOLA Journal, Winter 2003.
Estleman, Loren D. “Stuart Lake: Frontier Mythmaker.” Introduction to 1994 edition of Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal.
Geringer, Joseph. “Wyatt Earp: Knight with a Six-Shooter.” crimelibrary.com, 2014.
Hogge, Kevin, and Cindy Smith. “Tombstone’s Competitor.” True West, November 2015.
Hutton, Paul Andrew. “Billy the Kid’s Final Escape.” Wild West, December 2015.
Jay, Roger. “Bat Masterson: The Paladin of the Plains.” Wild West, August 2009.
______. “Close Shave for the Barber of Dodge City.” Wild West, February 2008.
______. “Reign of the Rough-Scuff: Law and Lucre in Wichita.” Wild West, October 2005.
“John Wesley Hardin.” famoustexans.com.
Kloppenborg, David. “The Lawmen of Dodge City and Ford County, Kansas.” skyways.org, 2002.
Lalire, Gregory. “Virgil Earp Was a Strong Second Fiddle.” Wild West, December 2009.
Laughead, George, Jr. “Hamilton Butler Bell.” kansashistory, 2009.
______. “W. B. ‘Bat’ Masterson, Dodge City Lawman, Ford County Sheriff.” skyways.org, 2006.
“Lawrence Edward ‘Larry’ Deger.” findagrave.com.
Mallory, P. A. “The Dodge City War.” Wild West, June 1997.
Markley, Bill. “The Original War Wagon.” True West, November 2015.
Miller, Nyle H., and Joseph W. Snell. “Kansas Cowtown Police Officers and Gunfighters.” Kansas Historical Quarterly, Spring 1960.
Mitchell, Carol. “Lady Sadie.” True West, February/March 2001.
Monahan, Sherry. “A Deadly Kitchen.” True West, January 2016.
Moulton, Candy. “On the Trail of the Buffalo Hunters.” True West, October 2015.
Myers, Roger. “The True Story of Clay Allison and Wyatt Earp, Dodge City, KS.” kansashistory.us, 2002.
______. “When Shootist Clay Allison Came to Dodge Hunting Trouble, He Found Wyatt Earp … Sort Of.” Wild West, December 2000.
“Newton Earp.” findagrave.com.
O’Toole, Fintan. “The Many Stories of Billy the Kid.” The New Yorker, December 28, 1998.
Palmquist, Bob. “Spicer Hearing.” Wild West, October 2015.
Penn, Chris. “Bat Masterson’s Emma.” Wild West, April 2012.
Pepper, Robert D. “The ‘Buntline’ Special Reconsidered.” kansashistory.us, 2006.
Peters, J. S. “Cimarron Shootist Clay Allison.” Wild West, October 1998.
Pettengill, Bob. “And the Cow-Boy Band Played On.” Wild West, October 2015.
Putfark, Elizabeth. “A Gentleman Rancher.” American Cowboy, August/September 2015.
Reed, Ollie, Jr. “Writing About Buffalo.” Roundup Magazine, April 2015.
Roberts, Gary L. “Bat Masterson and the Sweetwater Shootout.” Wild West, October 2000.
Rosa, Joseph G. “Colt’s ‘Old Model Navy’ Revolvers Found a Ready Market in the West.” Wild West, December 2009.
Russell, Mary Doria. “Is This Doc Holliday?” True West, September 2015.
Silva, Lee. “In a Brother’s Shadow.” Wild West, December 2009.
Silva, Susan L., and Lee A. Silva. “The Killing of Dora Hand.” Wild West, December 2009.
Simpson, H. O. “Early Day Gunmen Gave Color to Picturesque Setting of Dodge City.” Topeka Daily Capital, December 9, 1934.
Suchan, Judy. “The ‘War’ for the Royal Gorge.” Colorado Central Magazine, January 2011.
“The ‘Sensational, Hair-Raising, Blood-Curdling, Penny-Awful’ American Life of Ned Buntline.” readex.com, June 1, 2012.
“The Stetson Story.” American Cowboy, June/July 2015.
“Texas Legends: Mobeetie—Panhandle Mother City.” legendsofamerica.com, 2003.
Weiser, Kathy. “Belle Starr: The Bandit Queen.” legendsofamerica.com, 2015.
______. “Big Nose Kate: Doc Holliday’s Sidekick.” legendsofamerica.com, November 2013.
______. “Cheyenne Raid in Kansas.” legendsofamerica.com, 2012.
______. “Dirty Dave Rudabaugh: Feared by Billy the Kid.” legendsofamerica.com, 2015.
______. “Long Branch Saloon Shootout.” legendsofamerica.com, 2010.
______. “Tom Nixon: Buffalo Hunter & Law
man.” legendsofamerica.com, 2012.
Index
The index that appears in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.
Adobe Walls, Battle of:
First
Second
Allen, Billy
Allen, Jack
Allison, Clay
in Dodge
Earp’s confrontation with
Allison, Dora McCulloch
Allison, John
Apache
Tombstone and
U.S. campaigns against
U.S. treaties with
Armstrong, John
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Bailey, Ed
Baldwin, Frank
Barnes, Seaborn
Barra, Allen
Bass, Sam
Bassett, Charlie
Dodge City War and
in Las Vegas
lawman career of
Masterson’s relationship with
Bear Shield
Beatty, Peter L.
Becknell, William
Beeson, Chalkley McArtor
Behan, John Harris
Earp’s fourth wife and
lawman career of
Behrens, John
Bell, Frankie
Bell, Hamilton Butler “Ham”
Bell, James
Berry, James
Bond, Brick
Boot Hill
Born, Dutch Henry
Bowers, Ed
Boyett, Johnny
Brennan, Joe
Brennan, Mollie
Bridger, Jim
Bridges, Jack
Brocius, Curly Bill