“The first way to reduce the volume of scalping is to keep the tickets out of the hands of scalpers,” he said.

Finding the true culprit for the epidemic of scalping in the digital age is a little like figuring out who killed Davey Moore.

And sometimes those promoters and artists are themselves the ones doing the turning around and scalping.

They spent their time in hunting buffaloes, smoking pipes, lolling in the sun, and scalping each other's heads.