Wild Bill : the true story of the American frontier's first gunfighter
2019
Large Print
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. James Butler Hickok was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. Wild Bill became a legend, crossing paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs gunning for the sheriff with the quickest draw west of the Mississippi.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781432862312
- 1432862316
Edition: Large print edition.
Description:
- 455 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- large print (16 point)
Notes: Unabridged.
Contents:
- Prologue
- A New England clan
- Bloody Kansas
- Death at Rock Creek Station
- Behind enemy lines
- The gunfighter
- Along the Chisholm Trail
- Frontier fame
- Life of a frontier marshal
- Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill
- "They killed me"
- The man-killer
- The two-fisted marshal
- The streets of Abilene
- A three-ring romance
- The running of the bulls
- The reluctant thespian
- The Cheyenne loafer
- A woman called Calamity
- A married man
- Deadwood days
- The premonition
- Dead man's hand
- Epilogue.
LCCN: 2018057901
Control Number: 2680271
Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.