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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822785203321

Titolo

Wildest lives of the wild West : America through the words of wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and other famous Westerners / / edited by John Richard Stephens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut ; ; Helena, Montana : , : Twodot, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4930-2444-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Disciplina

917.3040922

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life - United States

Personal Narrative

Biography

Biographies.

History

Personal narratives.

Récits personnels.

West (U.S.) Biography

West (U.S.) History 1848-1860

West (U.S.) History 1860-1890

West (U.S.) History 1890-1945

États-Unis (Ouest) Histoire 1848-1860

États-Unis (Ouest) Histoire 1860-1890

États-Unis (Ouest) Histoire 1890-1945

West United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wildest Lives Of The Wild West ; CONTENTS ; Author's Note; Celebrities of the Wild West (introduction) ; The Making of a Legend; Wild Bill Hickok, US Army Scout; Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill; The Lincoln County War; A Terrible Place to Put a Fellow; Billy the Kid Dies, But Not with His Boots On; Life and Adventures of a Wild West Celebrity; Life on Apache



and Comanche Reservations ; Living as an Apache; Coming of the White Man; On the Run for Murder; Cowboy Trouble in Dodge; The Gunfight near the O.K. Corral; Tombstone and Trouble in Colorado; Frontier Men and Women

Wild Rough Riders of the PlainsConflicts with the Indians; Highwaymen of the Railroad; The Last of the Dalton Gang; Letters Home; Living in the Wild West; Recommended Reading/Bibliography; Index; About the Author/Editor

Sommario/riassunto

By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the frontier West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.