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Masterson, Bat (William Barclay) (1853–1921)| US marshal and sportswriter. In 1878 he succeeded his murdered brother, Edward, as marshal in Dodge City, Kansas. He moved to New York 1902, where he became a sportswriter for the Morning Telegraph. |
| Born in Iroquois County, Illinois, and raised in Kansas, Masterson worked in his early adult years as a buffalo hunter and scout before becoming a deputy marshal in Dodge City. |
| He briefly served with Wyatt Earp 1880 before moving to Kansas City. |
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| In California, there were Harry Love, Tom Cunningham, Doc Stanley, Ben Thorn, Harry Morse, and Jim Hume; Oklahoma had "The Three Guardsmen," Chris Madsen, Heck Thomas, and Bill Tilghman; Kansas featured Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Tom Smith; Texas had them by the dozen beginning, perhaps, with the state's early Rangers such as Jack Hays, Sam Walker, Ben McCulloch, and Lee McNelly, and later ones such as Frank Hamer. According to Bat Masterson, "He never in his career resorted to the pistol excepting in cases when it was absolutely necessary. Along the way, he managed to fight Indians and outlaws, survive deadly prairie and mountain storms, and rub elbows with both the famous westerners and notorious frontier desperadoes of his day, such as Bat Masterson, Jesse and Frank James, William (Buffalo Bill) Cody, and Billy the Kid. |