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English
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Wild Bill Hickok was a celebrity before there ever was a Hollywood. And he was dead before he was forty.
Now Richard Matheson, Spur Award-winning author of Journal of the Gun Years, delves into the life and times of James Butler Hickok... gunfighter, U.S. marshal, legend. The cruelty that turned him violent. The fears that drove him. And the historic events that cause his name to live on more than century later.
A compelling vision of the man behind...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The first thing you will notice about this engaging and delightful biography is that [Narrator Johnny Heller] sounds like a character actor who moseyed off the set of an old-fashioned oater. His voice is a little scratchy, a little seasoned and perfectly suits this biography of larger-than-life Bill Hickok and his pals, from Calamity Jane to Buffalo Bill Cody and General Custer." —The Berkshire Edge
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Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xxiv, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using a combination of colorful anecdote and meticulous research, Rosa describes what it was about Hickok that made him a boyhood hero and the more complex facts about the man who was alternately admired and vilified. James Butler Hickok was 38 when he was killed in Deadwood, S.D., in 1876. He had been a Civil War spy, scout, Indian fighter, gambler, gunfighter and peace officer.
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