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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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