Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West. By Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s Press. An apocryphal story tells of a despondent man getting on a train. The conductor asks where he’s going, and the man tells him, “To hell, most likely.” Replies the conductor, “That’s two dollars, and get off at Dodge City.” The town’s questionable reputation was well deserved, according to Tom Clavin in this lively account of one of the wildest towns in the West.