When Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson were hired as policemen in Dodge City, they mostly worked nights where they walked the "Deadline," a dangerous corridor full of drunk, Texas cowboys who, by and large, despised Yankees.
Daily Whip Out: "Wyatt Wary As A Cat."
"That feller Hamlet sure was a talkative man. He wouldn't have lasted long in Kansas."
—Wyatt Earp, after he and Tom Mix decided to get "culture" and read Shakespeare
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