The Authentic Wild West
- ISBN-10
- 0517526808
- ISBN-13
- 9780517526804
- Category
- Crime
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1976
- Publisher
- New York : Crown Publishers, c1976-c1980.
- Author
- James David Horan
Description
Drawing on newspaper, eyewitness, and government accounts and the words of the gunfighters themselves, the author presents myth-shattering profiles of Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Ben Thompson, John Wesley Hardin, Kid Curry, Tom Horn, and Harry Tracy
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