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They Called Him Wild Bill

Author : Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806179546
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book They Called Him Wild Bill written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope that "Hickok emerges as a man and not a legend." For this comprehensive revision of his earlier biography of Wild Bill the author was allowed to work from newly available materials in the possession of the Hickok family. He also discovered new material pertaining to Wild Bill’s Civil War exploits and his service as a marshal and found the pardon file of his murderer, John McCall. Additional, rare photographs of Wild Bill are published here for the first time. The results of Rosa’s additional research make this second edition the best biography of Wild Bill likely to be written for years to come.

Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane

Author : James D. McLaird
Publisher : SDSHS Press
ISBN 13 : 0977795594
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane written by James D. McLaird and published by SDSHS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: bibliography, index, eight-page photo essay

Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter

Author : Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806180420
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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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.

Wild Bill Hickok and the Wrath of the Dead Rabbits

Author : James Mic Regan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935991328
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok and the Wrath of the Dead Rabbits written by James Mic Regan and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of August 2, 1876, in the Number Ten Saloon of Deadwood, Dakota Territory, Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back and killed while playing cards. A man named Jack McCall was charged with the murder, but found innocent. In 1877, however, McCall was re-arrested for the murder, re-tried, and executed by hanging. Through the author's inside knowledge and meticulous research, questions about Hickok's death can now be answered, including what involvement the Dead Rabbits, an Irish gang from New York, had in the murder of Wild Bill.

Wild Bill Hickok

Author : Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780766031777
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Carl R. Green and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the life of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout, lawman, and showman of the Wild West.

The West of Wild Bill Hickok

Author : Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806126807
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (268 download)

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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.

The Illustrated Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692970355
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illustrated Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok: The First Gunfighter

The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok

Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429925906
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok written by Richard Matheson and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the myth--and an unforgettable journey into the American frontier. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147865
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.

Wild Bill Hickok and Deputy Marshal Joey

Author : Ethel B. Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258059132
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok and Deputy Marshal Joey written by Ethel B. Stone and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fathers and Sons

Author : Thomas Babe
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822203926
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Fathers and Sons written by Thomas Babe and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1980-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The scene is a bar in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, in 1876, where Wild Bill Hickok, now aging and growing blind, holds court. Despite his failing powers, Bill is respected and feared by the colorful habitues of the Number Ten saloon, an

Agnes Lake Hickok

Author : Carolyn M. Bowers
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185570
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Agnes Lake Hickok written by Carolyn M. Bowers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok—a mere five months before he was killed. Although books abound on the famous lawman, Agnes’s life has remained obscured by circus myth and legend. Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers have written the first biography of this colorful but little-known circus performer. Agnes originally found fame as a slack-wire walker and horseback rider, and later as an animal trainer. Her circus career spanned more than four decades. Following the murder of her first husband, Bill Lake, she was the sole manager of the “Hippo-Olympiad and Mammoth Circus.” While taking her show to Abilene, she met town marshal Hickok and five years later she married him. After Hickok’s death, Agnes traveled with P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody, and managed her daughter Emma Lake’s successful equestrian career. This account of a remarkable life cuts through fictions about Agnes’s life, including her own embellishments, to uncover her true story. Numerous illustrations, including rare photographs and circus memorabilia, bring Agnes’s world to life.

The Return of Little Big Man

Author : Thomas Berger
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1860467091
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Return of Little Big Man written by Thomas Berger and published by Random House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Crabb was 111 when he originally dictated his memoirs as they appeared in Berger's Little Big Man His supposed death cut short his tale just as he was recounting how he was the last white survivor of Custer's Last Stand. A newly-discovered manuscript, however, reveals that Jack faked his death to get out of his publishing contract. Now, in the long-awaited sequel to a literary classic, he completes the story of his extraordinary life. He tells of the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral and the assassination of Wild Bill Hickok. He introduces readers to the likes of Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, Doc Holliday, and to dozens of bargirls, saloon-owners and gunslingers who peopled the West. Jack relates how he travelled to Europe with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show and took tea with Queen Victoria. Finally, we discover who was behind the dastardly murder of Sitting Bull.

Wild Bill Hickok

Author : Richard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Richard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author endeavors to separate fact from fiction in the life of this colorful character.

The Real Deadwood

Author : John Edwards Ames
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781596090316
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Real Deadwood written by John Edwards Ames and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true life histories of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and other residents of the lawless town known as Deadwood—the inspiration for the award-winning HBO® series and film. With a cast of historically rich characters, The Real Deadwood explores the lives of Wild Bill Hickok, Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock, Calamity Jane, Sol Star, and a host of others who walked the streets of Deadwood. An historical crossroad of the American west, even Wyatt Earp came to Deadwood, only to bump heads with Sheriff Seth Bullock. Other celebrated visitors over the years include Buffalo Bill Cody, the Sundance Kid, Bat Masterson, and Teddy Roosevelt. Looking at the world of primitive medicine, prostitution, and law from lawlessness, The Real Deadwood separates the facts from the fiction in its overview of a town violent enough to rival the likes of Tombstone, Dodge City, and Abilene. This is the true story of life on the frontier—when roughing it was truly rough. It's good versus evil and civilization versus anarchy. It's the real Deadwood.

Dodge City

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146688262X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Dodge City written by Tom Clavin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller! Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City’s streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset. #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin's Dodge City tells the true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) that has gone largely untold—lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now.

Wild Bill - The Story of James Butler Hickok

Author : Donald Aday
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304057925
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill - The Story of James Butler Hickok written by Donald Aday and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Bill Hickok, the man who became known as the first gunfighter of the Old West.was more than the legend dictates. The man of legend is a gunslinger, a man-killer, who was as ruthless and dangerous as any outlaw of the time. But the real man was known by his friends as a gentleman of refined bearing and excellent character, who suffered a deep wariness and paranoia, searching the faces of strangers and being ever vigilant against the attack by an ambitious young gunslinger or any of his enemies, that was sure to come when he least expected it. When crossed or threatened in any way, the darker side of Hickok emerged in an instant to face and eliminate any foe. He was, by his nature and his many daring adventures, a man of his time, who met a tragic and violent end.Wild Bill - The Story of James Butler Hickok is a true story of the man, the lawman and the fearless gunfighter who made his inevitable and famous mark in the Old West, and passed into legend.