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10) The plainsman
Series
Pub. Date
©2004, ©1937
Language
English
Description
This western interweaves classic real-life old west legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer and Abraham Lincoln into a stunning tale as vast as the wild frontier itself.
11) Wild Bill Hickok
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Biography of the man behind the myth, Wild Bill Hickok.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"James Butler Hickok was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. But in July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, Missouri - 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. Even before his death in 1876, Wild Bill became a legend and he is brought fully to life in this...
Author
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
Excavating the reality behind the myth, author Rosa delves into the exploits and ego that defined Hickok and shows how the man was overtaken by his own legend. Rosa exposes a controversial and charismatic man--army and Indian scout, wagon master, courier, frontiersman, gunfighter, lawman, prospector, addicted gambler, and short-time actor--who was elevated from regional fame to national notoriety by inadvertently being in the right place at the right...
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Language
English
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Description
"In August 1876, Jack Jones, a reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is assigned to write about the doings of Deadwood, Dakota Territory--an illegal gold camp that knows no law. The lure of gold in the Lakota's Black Hills draws prospectors and many colorful characters, such as Al Swearengen, Calamity Jane, Colorado Charlie Utter, Seth Bullock, Madame Mustache, and Sol Star, and it also lures crime. After the shocking murder of an acquaintance, Jack Jones...
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 4
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Following the death of his father, Bill joins a wagon train to the west, where he is befriended by the famous marksman, Wild Bill Hickock.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Their names had become legendary: Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok and Texas Jack Omohundro. After taming the West, more or less, these three living legends decide to tackle the wildest of all frontiers -- the theater stages of the East. Based on actual events, East of the Border follows the 1873-74 theatrical tour of the three famous frontiersmen as they play themselves in Wild West stage melodramas in Eastern cities. Each has his own story to...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
DVD. Not rated. Title and credits from container. Twelve documentary set showcasing the wild and wooly past of the American wild west. Disc 1: Old west cowboys -- Wild Bill Hickok -- Wyatt Earp. Disc 2: Gunfighters of the old west -- Great indian wars -- Geronimo. West (U.S.) -- Biography.
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