Wildest lives of the Wild West : America through the words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and other famous westerners

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By and about some of the most prominent characters in the American West, these are the stories of their exploits told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony.

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ISBN:

9781493024438

Description:

xiii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Wild Bill Hickok : the making of a legend
George Armstrong Custer : Wild Bill Hickok, US Army Scout
Buffalo Bill Cody : Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill
Billy the Kid : the Lincoln County War ; a terrible place to put a fellow
Pat Garrett : Billy the Kid dies, but not with his boots on
Calamity Jane : Life and adventures of a Wild West celebrity
Frederic Remington : life on Apache and Comanche reservations
Geronimo : living as an Apache ; coming of the white man
John Wesley Hardin : on the run for murder
Wyatt Earp : cowboy trouble in Dodge ; the gunfight near the O.K. Corral
Doc Holliday : Tombstone and trouble in Colorado
Teddy Roosevelt : frontier men and women ; conflicts with the Indians
William A. Pinkerton : highwaymen of the railroad
Emmett Dalton : the last of the Dalton Gang
Butch Cassidy : letters home
Deadwood Dick : living in the Wild West

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2627605

Other Authors:

Stephens, John Richard, editor

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