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W. B. "Bat" Masterson
Dodge City Lawman
Ford County Sheriff
November 26, 1853 - October 25, 1921
W. B. "Bat" Masterson was born William Bartholomiew (nee, Barclay) in Iberville County, Quebec, Canada on November 26, 1853. Bat was the second of five children.
According to Masterson, writing in the third person in his book Gunfighters of the Western Frontier (1907), he gained his nickname later in life;
"It was as a hunter he won his name of 'Bat', which descended to him, as it were, from Baptiste Brown, or 'Old Bat', whose fame as a mighty nimrod was flung all across, from the Missouri River to the Spanish Peaks, and filled with admiration that generation of plainsmen which immediately preceded Masterson upon the Western stage."
Bat Masterson moved to Kansas in 1871, when he and his family settled near the small farming community of Sedgwick (near Wichita, KS), along with a family friend, the buffalo hunter, H.H. Raymond. The Masterson
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Voices and Votes: Respectfully, W.B. Masterson
Bat Masterson, c. 1880. Courtesy of kansasmemory.org. Kansas Historical Society, Copy and Reuse Restrictions Apply.
In November 1877, William Barclay “Bat” Masterson was elected Sheriff of Ford County by three votes. While Masterson, a well-known gunfighter and lawman, was known to be quick with his pistols when he felt he was wronged, most of his altercations never involved a shot being fired. The political unrest of early Dodge City is the stuff legends are made of, and Masterson’s election by his constituents is no exception. Turns out, most of what is often thought of as frontier law was decided by the ballot, not the bullet.
Bartholomew William Barclay “Bat” Masterson was born November 26, 1853, in Henryville, Quebec, Canada. His family lived in New York and Illinois before settling near Wichita. In 1872, Masterson, with brothers Ed and James, came to southwest Kansas to
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Bartholomew Barclay Masterson (1853 - 1921)
BartholomewBarclay(Bat)"William Barclay"Masterson
Son of Thomas Masterson and Catherine (McGurk) Masterson
Brother of Edward John Masterson, James Patrick Masterson, Hélène Élisabeth (Masterson) Cairns, Thomas Masterson II, Georges Henri Masterson, Catherine Émilie Masterson and Jean Pierre Masterson
Husband of Emma Matilda (Walter) Masterson — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
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