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Book Synopsis Wild Bill's Last Trail by : Ned Buntline
Download or read book Wild Bill's Last Trail written by Ned Buntline and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wild Bill's Last Trail" by Ned Buntline. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Thadd Turner and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At about 12 noon, August 2nd, 1876, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, entered the No. 10 Saloon in Deadwood City seeking entertainment and drinks.... three men were engaged in a game of draw poker cards and quickly invited Wild Bill to join them.... Hickok had an unobstructed view of the front door and could comfortably turn his head to see the rear door... Jack McCall entered the No. 10 Saloon ... when less than half a dozen feet from the rear door, McCall suddenly turned and fired one round... death was instantaneous.... This historical book includes the best available description of the No. 10 Saloon interior floor layout, and the physical placement of all the participants that were involved with the shooting of Wild Bill on August 2nd, 1876. A detailed analysis of the subsequent flight, capture, and trial of Jack McCall is also provided. Original photos and a new 1876 Deadwood City Main Street informational map are made available for review.
Book Synopsis Wild Bill Hickok by : Thadd M. Turner
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Thadd M. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout by : J. W. Buel
Download or read book Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout written by J. W. Buel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Two books about American legend Wild Bill Hickok are in this edition: Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout & Wild Bill's Last Trail 'Wild Bill' Hickok American James Butler Hickok (1837-1876) was a folk hero of the Old West, known for his frontier work wagon master, soldier, spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler and showman. He was notorious due to his outlandish - and often fabricated - tales about his life. Hickok was born and raised on an Illinois farm in an era when lawlessness and vigilante activity was rampant. Hickok was attracted to this ruffian lifestyle and headed west at 18 as a fugitive from justice. He worked as a stagecoach driver and later a frontier lawman in Kansas and Nebraska. He spied for the Union Army during the American Civil War and was well-known as a scout, marksman, and professional gambler. Over the course of his life, he was involved in several notable shootouts. Book I Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout, being a true and exact history of all the sanguinary combats and hair-breadth escapes of the most famous scout and spy America ever produced (First Published 1880). By author J. W. (James) Buel This is purportedly a "true" history of the hair-breadth escapes of the most famous scout and spy America has ever known. The book is generally considered the first biography of Wild Bill, but author J.W. Buel was not known for his accuracy. The author claimed to have known Wild Bill and to have had access to his diary, but -- as is the case in many works about legendary Western figures -- the truth and the fiction often combine. Book II Wild Bill's Last Trail, by Ned Buntline (pen name of New York writer Edward Zane Carroll Judson, Sr. 1821-1886). A story of one of the most noted shots, and certainly the most desperate man of his age and day west of the Mississippi River Author Ned Buntline was an American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist. He reputedly commissioned the Colt firearms manufacturer to make a customized revolver (although evidence of that is hard to come by). Buntline was reportedly in Nebraska when learned that "Wild Bill" Hickok was in Fort McPherson. He hoped to interview him and found Hickok in a saloon. As the story goes, Buntline rushed up to Hickok saying, "There's my man! I want you!" Hickok wasn't a fan of surprises. He threatened Buntline with a gun and told him to get out of town within 24 hours. Buntline wasn't taking any chances and left but he decided to finding Hickok's friends to gather stories. This may be how he first met Buffalo Bill.
Book Synopsis Imagining Wild Bill by : Paul Ashdown
Download or read book Imagining Wild Bill written by Paul Ashdown and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legend When it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s story was no exception. Mythologized and sensationalized, Hickok was turned into the deadliest gunfighter of all, a so-called moral killer, a national phenomenon even while he was alive. Rather than attempt to tease truth from fiction, coauthors Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill investigate the ways in which Hickok embodied the culture of glamorized violence Americans embraced after the Civil War and examine the process of how his story emerged, evolved, and turned into a viral multimedia sensation full of the excitement, danger, and romance of the West. Journalists, the coauthors demonstrate, invented “Wild Bill” Hickok, glorifying him as a civilizer. They inflated his body count and constructed his legend in the midst of an emerging celebrity culture that grew up around penny newspapers. His death by treachery, at a relatively young age, made the story tragic, and dime-store novelists took over where the press left off. Reimagined as entertainment, Hickok’s legend continued to enthrall Americans in literature, on radio, on television, and in the movies, and it still draws tourists to notorious Deadwood, South Dakota. American culture often embraces myths that later become accepted as popular history. By investigating the allure and power of Hickok’s myth, Ashdown and Caudill explain how American journalism and popular culture have shaped the way Civil War–era figures are remembered and reveal how Americans have embraced violence as entertainment.
Book Synopsis Wild Bill Hickok by : Joseph G. Rosa
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eulogised and ostracised, James Butler Hickok was alternately labelled courageous, affable, and self-confident; cowardly, cold-blooded, and drunken; a fine specimen of manhood; an overdressed dandy with perfumed hair; an unequaled marksman; and a poor shot. Born in Illinois in 1837, he was shot dead in Deadwood only 39 years later. By then both famous and infamous, he was widely known as Wild Bill.
Download or read book Wild Bill written by Tom Clavin and published by Thorndike Press Large Print. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorJames Butler Hickok was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. But in July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. Even before his death in 1876, Wild Bill became a legend, and he is brought fully to life in this rip-roaring, spellbinding true story.
Book Synopsis The West of Wild Bill Hickok by : Joseph G. Rosa
Download or read book The West of Wild Bill Hickok written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1994-08-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa’s exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one volume nearly all the known portraits of Wild Bill, together with photographs of his family, his friends, his foes, and the places that knew him.
Book Synopsis The Hero of a Hundred Fights by : R. Clay Reynolds
Download or read book The Hero of a Hundred Fights written by R. Clay Reynolds and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 1055 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating examination of the genesis of the Western novel and its influence on the modern American novel . . . full of rip-roaring yarns.” —James Reasoner, New York Times-bestselling author The Wild West came alive under the pen of Edward Zane Carroll Judson, who wrote many of Americas best-loved ”dime novels” under the pseudonym Ned Buntline. From Buffalo Bill (whom Judson knew first-hand) to Wild Bill Hickok, these vivid tales feature some of the most colorful characters on the American landscape. This anthology gathers a selection of his best-loved work, including four full-length unabridged novels, each with an introduction by author and critic Clay Reynolds. Stories include: Buffalo Bill, the King of Border Men; or, The Wildest and Truest Tale I’ve Ever Told Hazel-Eye, the Girl Trapper. A Tale of Strange Young Life The Miner Detective; or, The Ghost of the Gulch Wild Bill’s Last Trail And more “A valuable work for teachers and scholars of American popular culture. The Hero of a Hundred Fights provides a well-chosen and well-edited selection from the work of an important nineteenth-century popular writer.” —Richard Slotkin, National Book Award finalist for Gunfighter Nation “A welcome addition to both western literature and western history—this volume will be welcomed by any serious student of the American West.” —R. David Edmunds, author of The Shawnee Prophet “Ned Buntline was a legend in his own time. This collection of his iconic western fiction brings the legend to life in our time.” —J. Randolph Cox, editor, Dime Novel Round-Up
Book Synopsis Buffalo Bill's Wild West, America's National Entertainment by : Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company
Download or read book Buffalo Bill's Wild West, America's National Entertainment written by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody by : Bill Markley
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody written by Bill Markley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody were considered heroes and the greatest plainsmen of their time. They were larger than life, legendary characters. They knew where to locate water, good grass for livestock, sheltered campsites, and game for hunting. They knew how to survive the blistering heat and terrific thunderstorms of summer and the subzero blizzards of winter. They could avoid Indians or act as trackers following the trails of Indians as well as desperados. They were expert marksmen and did not back down from a fight. They rushed in where others held back. Hickok, a frontier wagon and stagecoach driver, became a Union spy during the Civil War, furthering his reputation after the war as a frontier Army scout, gunfighter, and lawman. Cody, who claimed to ride for the Pony Express, served in the Union Army, and became legendary as an expert buffalo hunter and Army scout. Hickok and Cody were good friends and experienced a series of adventures together. Hickok traveled to Deadwood, Dakota Territory, during the 1876 Black Hills goldrush where he was assassinated by Jack McCall. Cody continued scouting for the Army and after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, won a one-on-one duel with a Cheyenne warrior, Yellow Hair. Cody went on to become one of the most well-known showmen in the world with his Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody: Plainsmen, the fourth book in the Legendary West series, explores the lives of these two well-known characters.
Book Synopsis Buffalo Bill, Peacemaker; Or, On a Troublesome Trail by : Prentiss Ingraham
Download or read book Buffalo Bill, Peacemaker; Or, On a Troublesome Trail written by Prentiss Ingraham and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis Wild Bill Hickok by : Frank Jenners Wilstach
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Frank Jenners Wilstach and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has not been the purpose of this book to novelize Wild Bill Hickok. That has already been done, and rather effectively. The main purpose of this work is to find out what was real, and what imaginary, in the stories about him. Wild Bill was a fascinating personality to all who knew him. The mere mention of his name never failed to bring a crash of brasses from the orchestra. His friends never ceased to chant his praises as an honest man, an incredibly accurate pistol shot, and an individual who was without fear in the presence of danger. Contents: The Prince of Pistoleers Ancestry and Early Manhood The Magnum Opus of Pistolry The Mccanles Mystery Solved Wartime Adventures Fight With Conquering Bear and a New Indian Romance The Duel With Dave Tutt A Blue Ribbon Outburst of Guns On the Plains With the Wilson Party Marshal of Hays City and Abilene Wild Bill Starts a Wild West Show Traits and Personal Appearance Three Shooting Stars A Visit to Cheyenne Romance and Marriage The Calamity Jane-Wild Bill Myth Last Days The Trial and Execution of Jack Mccall
Book Synopsis Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter by : Joseph G. Rosa
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “James Butler Hickok, generally called ‘Wild Bill,’ epitomized the archetypal gunfighter, that half-man, half-myth that became the heir to the mystique of the duelist when that method of resolving differences waned. . . . Easy access to a gun and whiskey coupled with gambling was the cause of most gunfights--few of which bore any resemblance to the gentlemanly duel of earlier times. . . . Hickok’s gunfights were unusual in that most of them were ‘fair’ fights, not just killings resulting from rage, jealousy over a woman, or drunkenness. And, the majority of his encounters were in his role as lawman or as an individual upholding the law.”--from Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok (1837–1876) was a Civil War spy and scout, Indian fighter, gambler, and peace officer. He was also one of the greatest gunfighters in the West. His peers referred to his reflexes as “phenomenal” and to his skill with a pistol as “miraculous.” In Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter, Joseph G. Rosa, the world’s foremost authority on Hickok, provides an informative examination of Hickok’s many gunfights. Rosa describes the types of guns used by Hickok and illustrates his use of the plains’ style of “quick draw,” as well as examining other elements of the Hickok legend. He even reconsiders the infamous “dead man’s hand” allegedly held by Hickok when he was shot to death at age thirty-nine while playing poker. Numerous photographs and drawings accompany Rosa’s down-to-earth text.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Carl R. Green and published by Enslow Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The larger-than-life legend, Wild Bill Hickok, is credited with making the West safe for pioneers. Understandably written and filled with black-and-white photographs., School Library Journal
Book Synopsis Buffalo Bill, Peacemaker; Or, On a Troublesome Trail by : Prentiss Ingraham
Download or read book Buffalo Bill, Peacemaker; Or, On a Troublesome Trail written by Prentiss Ingraham and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Buffalo Bill, a famous real-life figure of the American Old West, is depicted as a fictional figure who often stumbles into troublesome yet exhilarating situations. In this book, he was en route to the town of Hackamore when he fell into an underground hole, only to find that he is not alone...
Book Synopsis Buffalo Bill and the Overland Trail by : Edwin L. Sabin
Download or read book Buffalo Bill and the Overland Trail written by Edwin L. Sabin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the early and adventurous phases of American history. The stories, though based upon accurate historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramatic action, and appeal to the imagination of the red-blooded man or boy. Here, Buffalo Bill takes center stage during the American Settler's era.
