Bat Masterson, gunfighter, socialist....

The real Bat Masterson left his career as a gunfighter in the west and went east and on to a career as a newspaper writer in NYC. He died in1921 of a heart attack, his last reported words, found in his typewriter, were these:

"There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way."