1. Charles E Bassett was a lawman and saloon owner in the American Old West in Dodge City.
22 Facts About Charlie Bassett
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Charlie Bassett was one of the founders of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, served as the first sheriff of Ford County, Kansas, as well as city marshal of Dodge City.
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Charles E Bassett was born on October 30,1847, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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Charlie Bassett was the fourth of six children born to Benjamin and Julia Bassett.
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On February 14,1865, Charlie Bassett enlisted in the Union Army at Frankford, Pennsylvania.
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Charlie Bassett received a $100 bounty for signing on for one year as a private in Company I of the 213th Pennsylvania Infantry, a volunteer regiment.
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Charlie Bassett was mustered out of his volunteer regiment in Washington, DC, on November 18,1865.
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Charlie Bassett served a little more than nine months, not for the year he had signed.
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Charles E Bassett spent the period between late 1865 and early 1873 drifting around the West, serving various stints as a miner, bartender, and buffalo hunter.
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Charlie Bassett was most likely in the neighborhood of what would become Dodge City, Kansas, when his father, Benjamin Bassett died in Philadelphia on January 2,1872.
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Charlie Bassett opened the original Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City in late 1872 in partnership with Alfred J Peacock.
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The bandits were reported in Kansas and Sheriff Charlie Bassett went out after them.
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Charlie Bassett was still serving as sheriff when he got the appointment during December, 1877.
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Mr Charlie Bassett has had thorough training and is a good man for the place.
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Charlie Bassett Basset assisted his two bosses, Sheriff Bat Masterson and Marshal Ed Masterson, in the capture of two more of the train robbers right in Dodge City.
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Charlie Bassett was stopped from doing so by Marshal Bassett.
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On November 4,1879, the Dodge City Council appointed James Masterson as city marshal, to replace Charlie Bassett, who had resigned.
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Mather remained in Texas for the next two years, but Charlie Bassett had grown homesick for Dodge City.
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Charlie Bassett moved on to Kansas City, Missouri, where he became manager of Webster and Hughes Marble Hall Saloon.
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Charlie Bassett returned to Kansas City, where he opened the Senate Saloon and obtained the nickname "Senator".
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The venture was a failure and Charlie Bassett went to work as a bartender in an establishment he did not own.
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Charlie Bassett went to Hot Springs, Arkansas, with the hope that the water would benefit his health, but he died there at age 48 on January 5,1896.