Bat Masterson lived quite an intriguing life during the times on the American Wild West days.He was well known as buffalo hunter, U.S. Marshall, Army scout, fisherman, gambler, and frontier lawman and even a sports editor and columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph. His popularity with a cane grew from using one on the television series "Bat Masterson". His use of a cane on the show was not for character development all in itself, but he was actually shot in the pelvis during a gunfight by Corporal Melvin A. King. His television series only amplified his portray of the character that really sold the story into legend that he needed to carry a cane for the rest of his life.