Wild West Podcast
Wild West Podcast
Michael King/Brad Smalley
The Killing Of Ed: April 9, 1878
13 minutes Posted Apr 9, 2026 at 10:00 pm.
Cattle Drives And Vice In Dodge
Shots Fired At The Lady Gay
A Gun Confiscated Then Reappears
The Street Fight Turns Into Murder
Four Shots Of Vengeance
Ed’s Death And Bat’s Grief
The Texans’ Final Hours
A Town Funeral And A Bitter Lesson
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Send us Fan Mail Dodge City doesn’t just welcome the cattle drives; it feeds on them. When the herds arrive, so do the wages, the whiskey, the gambling, and the dance halls, and the town’s “wide open” side of the tracks turns into a nightly test of nerve for anyone wearing a badge. We tell the story of one of those nights, when Deputy Marshal Ed Masterson and Assistant Marshal Nat Haywood walk their beat down Front Street and hear shots coming from the Lady Gay. What follows is a tense, step...