Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory

by Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809337886
• ISBN13: 9780809337880
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"