Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson on gunfighting

First, from pistol shooter Jeff Cooper: "Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." 

On the gunfighters, everybody knows Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Earp made the West as we know it through being a law man, a gambler, saloon owner and adviser to Hollywood directors. He died in 1929 at age 80.

Masterson was a U.S. Army scout, buffalo hunter, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist. He died in New York City 1921, age 67, when a columnist and reporter for the Morning Telegraph.

Earp tells of what he learned from older gunfighters, while Masterson has this to say about Earp: “Wyatt Earp is one of the few men I personally knew in the West in the early days, whom I regarded as absolutely destitute of physical fear.”                        

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