Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling story of the taming
of the Wild West, set in Dodge City, the most depraved and criminal town
in the nation.
The instant New York Times bestseller!
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 to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's
streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick
with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s,
Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West.
Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men,
the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule
of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the
United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to
Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But
before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed,
returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore
order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off
into the sunset.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin's Dodge City tells
the true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures,
along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the
way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo
Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt)
that has gone largely untold--lost in the haze of Hollywood films and
western fiction, until now.
