Find out about the life of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout, lawman, and showman of the Wild West.
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...
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 ...
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 definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.
It was reported that he “wore a buckskin suit—leggins and all—at this provincial wild west show. It was just another such suit as Colonel ... 17 Francis J. Petrie, “Buffalo Hunt, Wild West Show Was Staged Here in 1872,” [Niagara Falls?]
Evidently, Sarah Shull, his alleged mistress, lived in the original station buildings on the west side of the creek. James McCanles settled several miles away along the Little Blue River but moved farther east after his crops failed.
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 ...
By Donald J. Aday “He was loyal in his friendship, generous to a fault, and invariably espoused the cause of the weaker against the stronger one in a quarrel.” Captain Jack Crawford Published 2006, 2011 Copyright D. J. Aday, 2006, ...
The book will have extensive illustrations—archival photos of Wild Bill, his contemporaries, his guns, etc.
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.