I spent the next four months getting to know my daughter, and we ushered in the decade of the 1890s. It took about that long for Mallie to finally forgive me for almost getting killed. Bat and his soon-to-be wife, Emma Walters, were occasional visitors to our house and, on a couple of occasions, joined us for dinner with Mallie's mother and father.

I never felt that the McNabs were entirely at ease around Bat. He was, after all, a well-known "sporting man" in Denver, who associated with people like famous flimflam man Soapy Smith and underworld boss Lou Blonger, who were known to have dozens of city officials and policemen in their pockets. And then there was the fact that Bat and Emma were, as they said in those days, "living in sin."

Bat and Emma Walters did marry on Novem...

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