NOTES
- Jimmy Breslin, Damon Runyon: A Life. (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991), 58–59. Breslin does not document his source for this tale, but James D. Horan writes in The Lawmen (New York: Gramercy Books, 1980): 58–59, that western novelist William MacLeod Raine related a similar story in his Guns of the Frontier, based on information Raine claimed to have gotten from an unpublished manuscript written by Harry Lindsley. Lindsley, then the district attorney in Denver, wrote that Masterson “went on what Calamity Jane always called ‘a high lonesome,’ a prolonged drinking binge.” Jim Marshall, the sheriff of Cripple Creek and an old friend of Masterson's, was called in to arrest his former bufialo-hunting companion and got the drop on Masterson in a Denver saloon. Marshall “gently suggested” Masterson “should be on ‘the four o'clock Burlington’ when it pulled out from the depot,” and Masterson obliged, leaving town peacefully. Although he later went to New York, Masterson had no contact with the Morning Telegraph prior to his arrival there.
- See, for example, Legends of the Wild West (Lincoln wood, Ill.: Publications International, Ltd., 1997); Casey Tefertiller, Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997).
- See Hugh Fullerton, “The Fellows Who Made the Game,” Saturday Evening Post, 21 April 1928, 184–88; William Henry Nugent, “The Sports Section,” American Mercury, January 1929, 329–38.
- Charles Fountain, Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 60.
- “Bat Masterson Dies at Editor's Desk,” New York Times, 26 Oct. 1921, 17.
- Robert M. Wright, Dodge City: The Cowboy Capital and The Great Southwest in The Days of The Wild Indian, the Buffalo, the Cowboy, Dance Halls, Gambling Halls and Bad Men (Wichita, Kan.: Wichita Eagle Press, 1913), 146.
- Paul Trachtman, The Gunfighters (New York: Time-Life Books, 1974) 118–19.
- Robert K. Dykstra, The Cattle Towns: A Social History of the Kansas Cattle Trading Centers Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City and Caldwell, 1867 to 1885 (New York: Atheneum, 1979), 73.
- Ibid., 143.
- Stuart N. Lake, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshall (New York: Pocket Books, 1931), 40.
- David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, eds., The People's Almanac #2 (New York: William Morrow, 1978), 526.
- “Gang of Westerners Captured By Detectives,” New York Tribune, 7 June 1902, 16.
- Horan, The Lawmen, 21.
- Ibid., 60.
- Richard O'Connor, Bat Masterson (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957), 252.
- O'Connor, Heywood Broun: A Biography (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975), 27.
- Robert K. DeArment, Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), 374.
- O'Connor, Heywood Broun: A Biography, 28.
- Bat Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 25 Oct. 1921, 7.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- The use of violence as a theme of the West refers to individual conflict, not the Indian wars, range wars and violent strikes by workers. It is recognized that much of this representation of rugged individuals such as gunfighters, sheriffs and desperadoes has been exaggerated in myth. As Richard White has written: “The stock figures of myth and folklore—mountain men, gunfighters, cowboys, Indian warriors, scouts, and prospectors—come onto the scene armed and dangerous. They seek a climactic, individual showdown.” (White, It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A History of the American West, 1st ed. [Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991], 328.) In reality, as White wrote, law officers of cattle towns such as Masterson's Dodge City had little taste for individual showdowns, and spent most of their time rounding up drunks (Ibid., 330).
- Masterson, “Ben Thompson,” in Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier (Ruidoso, N.M.: Frontier Book Company, 1959), 25.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., 28.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 5 July 1921, 6.
- Masterson, “Ben Thompson,” 26.
- Ibid., 35.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 4 March 1915, 7.
- Masterson, “Luke Short,” in Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier, 14.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., 19.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., 20.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 21 Jan. 1912, 9.
- O'Connor, Bat Masterson, 242–43.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 4 July 1918, 9.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 14 March 1915, 10.
- Maurice Golesworthy, ed. The Encyclopedia of Boxing (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1960), 209.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 14 March 1915, 10.
- Ibid.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 12 July 1914, 11.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 31 July 1910, 6.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 9 July 1916, 11.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 25 July 1912, 7.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 5 July 1914, 8.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 21 July 1912, 6.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 17 July 1921, 3.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 6 July 1920, 7.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 29 Sept. 1921, 9.
- Ibid.
- Masterson, “Masterson's Views On Timely Topics,” Morning Telegraph, 21 Aug. 1921, 3.
- “Bat Masterson,” New York Tribune, reprinted in Morning Telegraph, 27 Oct. 1921, 5.
- Ibid.
- Masterson, “Ben Thompson,” 28.
- “Bat Masterson,” New York Tribune, reprinted in Morning Telegraph, 27 Oct. 1921, 5.