ENCORE I DODGE CITY Ep. 5: “The Last Hurrah”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In Tombstone, Arizona, events lead Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. And then Wyatt and Doc seek further justice on the outlaws who attack Wyatt’s brothers. Wyatt’s posse ends up in Colorado where Bat Masterson intervenes to save their lives. And then Wyatt, Bat and several more lawmen from the old days return to Dodge City for days of tension known as the Dodge City War. Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Mayor of Dodge City and the County Sheriff nervously peered out the window of the
0:18.2	Telegraph Office.
0:20.0	Their furtive glances shifted from the quiet street outside to the Telegraph machine
0:25.0	sitting silently on the desk.
0:27.4	The silence was the problem.
0:29.3	It dragged out, minute after minute.
0:33.2	The men were anxiously waiting for a telegram from the governor that would say he was sending
0:37.2	help.
0:38.2	Hopefully, two full companies of state militia.
0:42.4	The Mayor and the sheriff thought they needed that much firepower to counter the firepower
0:46.8	that was building on the other side of the dispute.
0:50.3	The other side not only had literal firepower in the form of dozens of men who were good
0:54.9	with guns, but some of those men now had legendary reputations as well.
1:00.2	And that was a powerful combination.
1:03.0	Reputation and the skill to back it up.
1:05.9	The men with skill and reputation had names like Batmasterson, Wyatt Earp, and Charlie
1:11.5	Bassett.
1:12.5	They'd been notable lawmen in Dodge just a few years earlier, but in the intervening
1:17.5	years, at least two of them had become household names nationwide.
1:23.3	And now they were all coming home to Dodge to support their friend Luke Short and his
1:27.5	battle against the Mayor and the sheriff.
1:30.7	When the posse that had been formed by the Mayor and the sheriff discovered that some of
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