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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Dodge City 20170401

About the authenticity kansas and brcs thrilled about that i want to give you some of the accolades he has received some said it is a must have for history books another said for lovers are those who have banned it should covet this Nonfiction Book the former mayor of dodge city and chairwoman of terror is tourism agreed i think it is very high praise that she said this will enjoy this book even if your read history it will adjust flaw along. Tom clavin is of number one year times bestselling author working with the newspaper and a magazine writer and reporter for the New York Times has received words from society as a professional journalist and the National Newspaper association including the heart of everything that is witches of book about red cloud and i think one of the reasons that it flows so well with some of narrative is so compelling because he does have the chops. Look at the stack of books so is my great pleasure to introduce tom clavin. [applause]. I appreciate being here is a great privilege with everybody showing up how generous of them to be here i am fascinated by a readers shoppers seeking give a good talk because we spend almost all of our time talking to ourselves only occasionally allowed so to make that transition to be in a room by yourself and then interacting with people will do the best that i can so what helps is to make notes and prepare a at a time so that a sitting here thinking to take the notes to throw them down there a smile to you how the book came about and some of the stories and see what questions you have a head done several books with a coauthor were was a wonderful writer we had done a book with the part of everything there is it is about the of lakota sioux indian leader the only one that was led to defeat not just of battle but that is what the book was about me feel very fortunate the book sold very, very well we did that with Simon Schuster and wanted to write another book about the american blast the my coauthor of publisher said were looking to come back to the 20thcentury do have any good world war ii stories . So that is the book that we did but while working on that i could not shake the ada to go back to the west sometimes the way i find ideas is by trolling around i remembered i heard about it i did not know when it was in iran across a couple things to research the life and that intrigued me because the majority of people with the immediate name recognition had you know, what that was like . Those of us of a certain age remember and some of us may have remembered to be portrayed and usually was of second banana so that is the image that we may have had to have an amazing life but yet it is hard to find that information. I did not want to do a book about why it hurt why its urban wyatt earp. Why do another . There is another one that is called inventing t6 all of the myths perpetrated over the years but started to put somebody elements to gather but we do know about the tombstone wyatt earp at the o. K. Corral and almost no age wyatt earp if you think of all of movies better done to my darling clementine and harry fonda was probably in his foreign 40s Amber Lancaster played by kirk douglas and then you have Kevin Costner and kurt russell playing wyatt earp so is just like it was before eddy okay corral i started to put these pieces together for get tombstone was his life like before and had it turned out that as a young man would die at the same time website not saying nothing has ever bed written the issue can find articles but i started to get more and more into it and unfortunately the press said to the book on your own bin tell the story so that was the threeyear project reason why it took three years that was the easy part was started to write it went very swiftly because i just wanted to tell one story after another to have a read like a novel so somebody concerned that next chapter of but the research was so laborious and time consuming theres a lot of the tall tales about iconic western figures that is easy to find and that is the problem if he does want to write . Nbc just take what is perpetrated but i did not want to do that and that the real story of wyatt earp was just as exciting than the of myths that have spent perpetrated in his later years with the newspaper headlines referred to as being bloodthirsty because he killed 22 men dead is not true but that was the kind of guy to be reluctant to burst anybodys bubble allotted people dont know what it was light because it was so remarkable the last few years of his life spent as a newspaper reporter for the new York Telegraph he wrote about sports he would write three columns per week because he loved boxing and then at night with a fullcourt people bled, from outoftown and one of his proteges was a man named david runyon and eventually his story was guys and dolls that was his tribute who taught him how to be a newspaper reporter and then everyone some while somebody comes to new york with the hands were dripping with blood so they would they please so imagine the big shot wouldbe if i would tame the last then i got to the price to say okay. Dont tell anybody it did this then he wed for covert of money and then you put 22 notches in the gulf 45 so these are all fascinating to me so i said want to tell of story of young wyatt sharp and then as young men were not choirboys. They had to figure out if i am a good guy or bad guy . It could go either way and it did i also discovered because wyatt earp is portrayed in Popular Culture that he knew what was right and wrong he was rather tragic and flied type of figure until he got to wichita which is where he be deemed to self. Because before the team is just coming out of prison to be a horse thief i will tell you the story of little bet without detail but bordon illinois won the 10 children his father was very familiar with the of law and inside of the jail cell one of his patients was the moonshiner zero is going back and forth looking for a place to call home when his older brothers newton and james and virgil fought in the civil war but their father royce drag them back and after the civil war virgil went west the word for freight and the teamsters in the real accompanies bandwagon Companies One of the myth of wyatt earp when he is portrayed walking into a bar to knock down a shot of whiskey to be a fighter even with doc colonnade but it wyatt earp did not drink so despite his attempts to be acclimated he gave up occasionally have a glass of beer but then his family and uplifting in a more misery lamar misery while he was there he took the job as ever looking for a constable and he also fell and love in with of women and filled with decibel badly in love the course ship was brief and he bought property in she was pride pregnant he was when to be a constable they would raise their kids his wife was eight months pregnant and she died in the baby died with her and he was crushedhe went on a downward trajectory he was arrested for robbery and not prepaying a loan he was getting into fights that have to bail him out and was arrested for a horse thief if we had never known him to become a famous outlaw but then he came to wichita to this one passage want to read id prefer to tell the story because of this one this is where his life turned around. He finally arrived 1874 in wichita the town was at its peak of transporting cattle packing into Railroad Cars sendoff to the slaughterhouse of years for with the tall bating prairie grass his older brother james she operated a brothel and in the sense the occupation was listed as sporting the saloons were springing up on every corner officials went so far to post signs that everything goes to wichita walking into the dry air at night with a sense of the year and whiskey and then when gone too long between about. Coming from the background and laughter were a fight broke out. He could not spend his money in jail young women in fluffy dresses and in which a top prostitution was legal the city was the new reputation wichita represents a hell after sundown harlots and hack drivers cursing and yelling and cracking their whips and as the females have their smiles and foot and by the men and so there you have it wichita. [laughter] lot of people could see the and edges of that type of economy but they also worried about descending into chaos there was of a guy there who became a marshal and another manager jim smith to work for the police force in wichita then became a fulltime member of the Police Department he saw himself as a bad bet it was okay because he lost his wife he started to care about things again and startedto take seriously the idea he wanted to be on the right side of the law. He was not quietude also be an act of bouncer with his brother at the brothel but he was seeing a different way of life there was an election going on as the men that were trying to become the new marshall and during the campaign and why it beats him up he did not make it and was reelected but to say we cannot have somebody was to enforce a lot to beat people up industry so he was fired so that is when he got the offer to move to dodge city come here and check out so is this so interesting there were six brothers and a lot of times they would work together. And why it worked for the of martial and Jim Masterson but also work and so did virgil but he was one of seven children and it was reported that he was canadian that he and never been to or confirmed he should not have been elected to office so only many years later but this family and the bin kansas outside of wichita his father ran the farm and his brother was the older brother and came back he was very mild mannered the family always thought he was too nice to survive sinuous boast to look after his brother he heard there was a lot of money to make so he was persuaded to come with him but they would pay well you can scan the buffalo and make the money during one of those early years he met wyatt earp later they would say that is the nine met each other and immediately became friends he did buffalo hunting for a while then became an army scout and the movies of the searchers with john wayne where they try to fight find natalie woods he was only 20 as an army scout the parents were killed and the daughters were kidnapped one band to two of the daughters and went after them but it took a year but eventually he tracked down the band of indians and brought them back that was part of the ventures that they had also the of battle of the adobe wall as they attacked the group of comanches but 10 years later that was the group of people with their hoping to put a settlement there in the trading post for people there were only 30 of us but what they did not realize they were entering the territory controlled by a their partner that was the great comanche leader said to get those warriors together because we cannot let them take root here so there was a huge battle so one of the survivors and the heros state isnt texas that later became sweetwater and then he falls in love and to one girl named tamale brennan who knows what different course of life that would have taken but all these people were in love with Molly Brennan besides being kicked out for being violent he was drunk one night and came to the saloon with a gun and shoots and wounds him in the groin that is why he forever carries a cane because of his injury because he was going to fiery again so then they take the bullet and is killed and then he takes the did not to kill sergeant dean and it was a miracle that was the only thing that saved him he was grieving and they said to him come to dodge city it is a happening place. [laughter] so he goes to digest city basically he is reunited with his friends with wyatt earp and their career began the was happening in dodge city was the real road and they started to explode because all of ranchers have the cattle drives they get to dodge city the railroad was there they put the cattle on the train to go to the slaughterhouse in chicago and a lot of money to be made suddenly dodge city was expanding by leaps and bounds and that the end of the trail with the saloons and brothels people were starting businesses and dodge city became a place that they came to webcast through including the outlawed because the violence was breaking out people would carry guns because a lot of liquor was consumed a lot of life in a small place in the more forward thinking people said we have to do something about this the first year 15 people were killed and we cannot have that people not want to raise their families and it got the reputation the worst town in america and west so uc in separate cisco and chicago won story was published a guy was sitting on the train going to dodge city he said im going to have zero and we will drop off the dodge city it had the reputation laugh laugh. And said would you be interested to working, and looking for a fresh start. You know, he basically got kicked out of wichita and he said sure, ill try it and he became assistant marshal and soon after here comes limping into town but they needed another deputy, so with that, lets work together. And thats where this whole other phase of the book begins but they were represented it was Charlie Basset and bill tillman and other good lawman. But what i found fascinating about that, i mean they were best friends. They had each others back. They trust each other completely. They they had both in their 20s. When a couple of years got elected and got elected the sheriff newly incorporated and he was 22 years old. Thats all and what really intrigued me was that here are two guys not educated men. Intelligent to some extent, yes. But they they basically found themselves at the forefront of trying to impose or create a system of law and order on the frontier. Whatever they could do was a good chance to translate elsewhere top the other frontier towns and work at dock city it might elsewhere. If they fail in dodge city it wot happen elsewhere too. And they were not you know, there was no like i said there was no marshal school. There was no sheriff academy. They basically to within themselves support each other a reason to do their thing and that was toot the road i thoughting to do the right thing to build school, churches, that they could businesses could thrive. That there was there was a part of them i dont think that either one would have articulated it but a part of them that realized that what they could do with dodge city is sort of like the pooch of america, future of the american westing and again if you ask to write a essay about this they would have is looked at the you like you had three heads. But they started to enforce the law. Now law sometimes the lay was vague and sometime it is didnt exist and sometimes judges didnt exist. But the way and why it said that way that i got hired not to kill people. I got hired to not kill people. They took very seriously being called peace officers that it was very important to them. Now they have to do make dodge city a Peaceful Place and not by killing people. So the myth that sprung up later about people shooting down and being faster on the draw of bad guys completely untrue there was an economic reason for it. As you can imagine being a lawman that did not pay very well. You know theres no ira. Theres no medical benefits. But the supplemented their income by the Justice System such it was paid0 per arrest you didnt get money if they died but put them in jail and then you got paid. So what they had to do was to figure out how to make money and do the right thing and enforce the law. There was a practice called buffaloing, and expert called it other lawman. Now wyatt 6 foote tall and today dont consider that a tall person but youre talking about the 1870s that was taller than average person and so what he thought something might go the wrong way crack somebody on the top of a head with his gun knocked the guy out. Woke up with a headache in jail, got dragged before the judge paid his fine and off he wents. So it was actually quite rare that there was a gun play that there was an actual, actual shootout. Ill tell you one exception that happened, let me two stories that sort of juxtapose there was a guy named george, cowboy that was shooting up the town, and wyatt, and one of Bass Brothers jim, confronted him and told him to get out of town and he didnt listen. And he shot the place some more and they started to head out of town and wyatt shot at him and hit him supposedly his wife that got him, and he later died. The only time as a lawman that wyatt killed somebody was one instance, and so some time later a guy named clay ellison came to town and clay ellison called a shootist some of us know a john wayne movie by that name but they called certain gunman especially the more expert one shootists in those days and clay ellison had a terrible reputation and trnl guy and he came to dodge city to kill. And revenge for his friend george. So hes Walking Around town with guns, everything saying wheres wyatt and wyatt appears in town so wyatt finds him and confronts him and theres a standoff there and basically the conversation was clay ellison says im here for you wyatt and wyatt saying i think the best thing you should do is get on your horse. Turn around and leave because this is not going to end well and what neither one of them knew it was that he had heard about this and few door waysdown with a shotgun and later said if he killed wyatt i was going to kill him until they had each others back but clay ellison rode out of town. The personality, and the idea that im not going to let you come to shoot up this town was a kind of a turning point. Now, there was an example of a different way to do things, of course, that shotgun too but they think theyve gone south. [laughter] would have been nasty. But the other other time that there was actually a shootout and it was one of the major events in dodge city at the time it led to what was the biggest funeral dodge city had seen at that point when that sheriff for county, his brother ed, was was made marshal of dodge city, and he was actually in a shootout that will had took several monthses to recover are. And then back on the job again, there was sounds of shots fired on the other side of front street. So that excuse me, ed masterson ran over there and there was a bunch of drunken coboys and couple of them had guns and some imposessed no guns. Okay, you leave your gun outside or come in with a gun you have to give it to the bar tender and come you leave it. So theyve got the guns, so that sets them, you know, you have to give your gun to the brerpd and could have been a standoff but they say okay so gun to the bar tender. Meanwhile somebody had run back at the Sheriff Office and said your brother is takin

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