They Called Him Wild Bill
Title | They Called Him Wild Bill PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph G. Rosa |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2012-11-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0806179546 |
His contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope that "Hickok emerges as a man and not a legend." For this comprehensive revision of his earlier biography of Wild Bill the author was allowed to work from newly available materials in the possession of the Hickok family. He also discovered new material pertaining to Wild Bill’s Civil War exploits and his service as a marshal and found the pardon file of his murderer, John McCall. Additional, rare photographs of Wild Bill are published here for the first time. The results of Rosa’s additional research make this second edition the best biography of Wild Bill likely to be written for years to come.
The West of Wild Bill Hickok
Title | The West of Wild Bill Hickok PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph G. Rosa |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1994-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806126807 |
Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa’s exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one volume nearly all the known portraits of Wild Bill, together with photographs of his family, his friends, his foes, and the places that knew him.
Imagining Wild Bill
Title | Imagining Wild Bill PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Ashdown |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2020-08-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0809337894 |
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 investigate the ways in which Hickok embodied the culture of glamorized violence Americans embraced after the Civil War and examine the process of how his story emerged, evolved, and turned into a viral multimedia sensation full of the excitement, danger, and romance of the West. Journalists, the coauthors demonstrate, invented “Wild Bill” Hickok, glorifying him as a civilizer. They inflated his body count and constructed his legend in the midst of an emerging celebrity culture that grew up around penny newspapers. His death by treachery, at a relatively young age, made the story tragic, and dime-store novelists took over where the press left off. Reimagined as entertainment, Hickok’s legend continued to enthrall Americans in literature, on radio, on television, and in the movies, and it still draws tourists to notorious Deadwood, South Dakota. American culture often embraces myths that later become accepted as popular history. By investigating the allure and power of Hickok’s myth, Ashdown and Caudill explain how American journalism and popular culture have shaped the way Civil War–era figures are remembered and reveal how Americans have embraced violence as entertainment.
Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout
Title | Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout PDF eBook |
Author | James William Buel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Heroes of the Plains, Or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides
Title | Heroes of the Plains, Or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides PDF eBook |
Author | James William Buel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
Heroes of the Plains, Or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne ...
Title | Heroes of the Plains, Or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne ... PDF eBook |
Author | James William Buel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
Wild Bill Hickok
Title | Wild Bill Hickok PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph G. Rosa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Eulogised and ostracised, James Butler Hickok was alternately labelled courageous, affable, and self-confident; cowardly, cold-blooded, and drunken; a fine specimen of manhood; an overdressed dandy with perfumed hair; an unequaled marksman; and a poor shot. Born in Illinois in 1837, he was shot dead in Deadwood only 39 years later. By then both famous and infamous, he was widely known as Wild Bill.