The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok

About this book

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.