Friends Call Me Bat

<p>William Barclay Bat Masterson lived an extraordinary life almost impossible to imagine. If it weren't true no one would believe it. He lived the West when the West was wild- as a buffalo hunter Indian fighter army scout lawman and gambler. Bat's adventures took him from the Bear Shield Raid to Dodge City in its anything-goes-cow-town heyday and many more events where his significance remains largely unknown. He encountered and ran with some of the West's most colorful characters deadly gunfighters and dangerous desperados a veritable Who's Who of old West history. <em>Friends Call Me Bat</em> is his story and those of his friends as he might have told them complete with an otherworldly twist at the end.</p>