Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter: A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri

by Joseph G. Rosa and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

James Butler Hickok, generally called 'Wild Bill, ' epitomized the archetypal gunfighter, that half-man, half-myth that became the heir to the mystique of the duelist when that method of resolving differences waned. . . . Easy access to a gun and whiskey coupled with gambling was the cause of most gunfights--few of which bore any resemblance to the gentlemanly duel of earlier times. . . . Hickok's gunfights were unusual in that most of them were 'fair'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806135352
• ISBN13: 9780806135359
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.2"