in los angeles, the sheriff of ford county and jim masterson worked as a law man, virgil worked as aaw man so that was one of seven children and he's always been reported that bat was also born in illinois but he was from qucbec, he was canadian which he never admitted to or confirmed because he would never be an american citizen, he should never have been in federal office whichhe did more than once. so many years later , the detective work found out he was a canadian but stanley ended up in kansas, i think about 10 or 14 miles outside of wichita. his father, was the one who ran the farm and bat, his brother ed was theolder brother and they came back , bat was protective and his older brother was a mild-mannered, likable guy in the family always thought he was too nice to survive so bat was always the one under his brother and the time came back up, do you want to be a farmer and he heard there was money to make an buffalo hunting so he persuaded ed to come with him and they became buffalo hunters which was a grimy, dirty, filthy, hard work but it paid well because at that time ther