This episode Mason tells the gang the story of gunman, gambler, and onetime lawman Ben Tompson. A contemporary of Bat Masterson and adversary of “Wild Bill” Hickok, learn how this native Englishman came to make the American South his home as he gambled and shot his way into the History Books.
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Sources:
Time to Die
By Thomas C. Bicknell and Chuck Parsons
https://truewestmagazine.com/article/time-to-die/
BEN THOMPSON 1843-1884: OLD WEST GUNFIGHTER AND AUSTIN CITY MARSHALL
By Matt Braun
https://knottingley.org.uk/history/ben_thompson.htm
The Life and Legacy of Ben Thompson: Gunfighter and Lawman
By: Tom Bicknell and Anne Beck
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/thompson-ben
The Life of John Wesley Hardin
By John Wesley Hardin
https://books.google.com/books?id=jLM-AAAAYAAJ&q=john+wesley+hardin#v=snippet&q=bull&f=false
Outlaw Tales of Kansas
By Sarah Smarsh & Robert Barr Smith
https://archive.org/details/outlawtalesofkan0000smar
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