In Bat Masterson’s reporting on those grand men of western frontier Americana who without hesitation would display the sand necessary to settle differences ‘here and now’ with Colt’s pistols, he also provides fertile soil to initiate an academic analysis of the foundational question as to the success of the noble American experiment.
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