Dodge City
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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 ... Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes ... By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson ... The true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way ... has gone largely untold--lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction--until now"--
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The author knows that this material has been sensationalized in other retellings. I think he might have overcorrected and made his history too dry.
It's funny to me that the Wild West that so many idealize lasted only from 1865 to 1882.
Bat Masterson was the most interesting to me, and I'd like to read more about his latter years as a sportswriter in New York City.
