Download or read book Hickok V Busboom written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagining Wild Bill written by Paul Ashdown and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legend When it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s story was no exception. Mythologized and sensationalized, Hickok was turned into the deadliest gunfighter of all, a so-called moral killer, a national phenomenon even while he was alive. Rather than attempt to tease truth from fiction, coauthors Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill investigate the ways in which Hickok embodied the culture of glamorized violence Americans embraced after the Civil War and examine the process of how his story emerged, evolved, and turned into a viral multimedia sensation full of the excitement, danger, and romance of the West. Journalists, the coauthors demonstrate, invented “Wild Bill” Hickok, glorifying him as a civilizer. They inflated his body count and constructed his legend in the midst of an emerging celebrity culture that grew up around penny newspapers. His death by treachery, at a relatively young age, made the story tragic, and dime-store novelists took over where the press left off. Reimagined as entertainment, Hickok’s legend continued to enthrall Americans in literature, on radio, on television, and in the movies, and it still draws tourists to notorious Deadwood, South Dakota. American culture often embraces myths that later become accepted as popular history. By investigating the allure and power of Hickok’s myth, Ashdown and Caudill explain how American journalism and popular culture have shaped the way Civil War–era figures are remembered and reveal how Americans have embraced violence as entertainment.
Download or read book The Revenger written by Aaron Woodard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok examines Wild Bill’s life in the context of 19th Century American history, from his birth, through his early manhood, and to his eventual demise. Woven into his life story are the significant role played by the Civil War in the development of his character and philosophy, the role played by popular media in the creation of his legendary status, and the changing of the western landscape and lifestyle that began to eliminate the need for gunmen such as Wild Bill. The book discusses Hickok’s early jobs in law enforcement and his associations with other significant westerners and recounts the events that transformed Hickok from a formidable lawman into a national celebrity and popular hero. Details of Hickok’s most famous gunfights, including weapons used and participants and outcomes and, of course, the end of his career including his famous death at the hands of an assassin in a saloon in Deadwood South Dakota are all explored. The book also incorporates changing views of historiographical interpretation of lawmen/gunmen in general and Wild Bill in particular. The book will have extensive illustrations—archival photos of Wild Bill, his contemporaries, his guns, etc.
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.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Larissa Phillips and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and exploits of William Hickok, the legendary Western sharpshooter known as Wild Bill.
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.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Thadd Turner and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At about 12 noon, August 2nd, 1876, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, entered the No. 10 Saloon in Deadwood City seeking entertainment and drinks.... three men were engaged in a game of draw poker cards and quickly invited Wild Bill to join them.... Hickok had an unobstructed view of the front door and could comfortably turn his head to see the rear door... Jack McCall entered the No. 10 Saloon ... when less than half a dozen feet from the rear door, McCall suddenly turned and fired one round... death was instantaneous.... 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. A detailed analysis of the subsequent flight, capture, and trial of Jack McCall is also provided. Original photos and a new 1876 Deadwood City Main Street informational map are made available for review.
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.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 marksman; and a poor shot. Born in Illinois in 1837, he was shot dead in Deadwood only 39 years later. By then both famous and infamous, he was widely known as Wild Bill.
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.
Download or read book And Not to Yield written by Randy Lee Eickhoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master novelist crafts the life story of the legendary gunslinger whose exploits have become part of the lore of the American frontier. "Eickhoff presents a poetic, yet violent fiction account of Wild Bill Hickok."--Elmer Kelton.
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.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Larissa Phillips and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and exploits of William Hickok, the legendary Western sharpshooter known as Wild Bill.
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.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok and The Rebel Raiders American Frontier Wild Bill Hickok and the Rebel Raiders Book 10 written by Disney Book Group, and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Bill Hickok's courage is tested when he becomes pony express station master in Rock Creek, Nebraska and must stand up to Jack Chamber's gang of rebel raiders after they steal a pony express horse.
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok written by Joseph G. Rosa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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
