No, I will never forget Bat Masterson.
And, although it was a Southern (rather than a Western), I loved the Grey Ghost.
“We took our men from Texas, Kentucky, and Virginia;
from the mountains and the backwoods and the plains.
We put them under orders — guerrilla fighting orders,
and what we lacked in numbers,
we made up in speed and brains.
Both Rebs and Yankee strangers,
they called us ‘Mosby’s Rangers.’
Both North and South they knew our fame.
Gray Ghost is what they called me;
John Mosby is my name.”
I loved “The Grey Ghost”. It was my favorite show. I can’t remember how long it was on but it wasn’t very long. I was told way back then that CBS cancelled it because he was a Confederate.
If I remember, that song was to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas”.