biography
| name: |
Masterson, William Barclay
|
| |
known as Bat
|
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1853–1921)
|
| biography:
| Law enforcer and sports journalist, born in Iroquois Co, Illinois, USA. Moving to Kansas with his family at age 17, he engaged in the activities of frontier youths, such as hunting buffalo, fighting the Indians, and serving as an army scout, until in 1876 he became a deputy marshal at Dodge City, KS. For the next quarter century he was one of the most famous of the frontier law enforcers, from Deadwood, SD to Tombstone, AZ, associated at one point with Wyatt Earp. A gambler and boxing enthusiast, in 1902 he went to New York City to be a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. President Theodore Roosevelt admired Masterson and appointed him a federal deputy marshal (1905–7) but he resigned to concentrate on journalism, eventually becoming sports editor of the Telegraph. Hollywood films would later make him into an American legend. |
|
|
