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Were Sam and Lou in Dodge City in 1878?

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Were Sam and Lou in Dodge City in 1878?

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The Sources: Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend by Robert K. De Arment yields a reference to Sam & Lou in Dodge City. They supposedly joined the best of their brethren there for a summer of sport in 1878, perhaps the year of Dodge’s greatest fame. Earlier, Forbes Parkhill wrote something similar in Wildest of the West, 1951, that the Blongers were pals of Masterson since Dodge. Evidence: Lou omits Dodge from his pension file. Obituaries say he and Sam had a theater and gave tours. If they did live there, it was very briefly, which would be the norm for them. The more likely supposition is that they simply traveled to Dodge to gamble.

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