In the golden haze of a Gunnison sunset, a weary journalist searching for frontier myth meets a man whose story straddles the razor’s edge between legend and truth. In this premiere episode of Steel and Silk: The Life of Bat Masterson, we journey to the buffalo ranges, railroad camps, and saloons that forged one of the West’s most enigmatic figures.

From his quiet beginnings in Quebec to the thunder of the Sharps rifle on the open prairie, Bat Masterson emerges not as a caricature of cowboy fiction, but as a gentleman killer—measured, meticulous, and molded by survival. Alongside legends like Wyatt Earp and Billy Dixon, the boy named Bartholomew becomes a man known simply as Bat, a name that echoes through the canyons of the American West.

This is not just the story of a gunfighter. This is the story of a life lived where the line between fact and folklore disappears into dust.

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