Untitled Title "To hear someone say 'Dodge City' immediately conjures up images of lawlessness and violence, corruption and rough riding men in black hats. This overlooks that there were men and women in Dodge City working to establish a more civilized life, and they hired lawmen like Wyatt (Earp) and Bat (Masterson)...to forge a system of frontier justice that would eventually create the West we know today. If these men had failed, the history of America in the late nineteenth century would have been quite different." --Tom Clavin, "Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West," 2018 48)
Which of the following is a reason the author believes the lawmen changed the history of the west? *
a) After towns ran out of gold, many of the police often left, leaving just a few to protect those who still lived in "ghost towns."
b) Dance halls, churches, and libraries attracted the wrong type of people in new towns in the west
c) Railroad advancements brought more people to the area and the need for a larger police presence
d) With the amount of wealth in these cities that had gold, protection was necessary to ensure everyone's safety.