Bat Masterson, American police officer and journalist (died 1921)

Bat Masterson

American army scout, lawman, gambler, and journalist (1853–1921)

Bartholemew William Barclay "Bat" Masterson was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the late 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was born to a working-class Irish family in Quebec, but he moved to the Western…