| Description |
1 online resource (401 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Contents; Author's Note; Celebrities of the Wild West; 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 Plains; Conflicts with the Indians |
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Highwaymen of the RailroadThe Last of the Dalton Gang; Letters Home; Living in the Wild West; Recommended Reading/Bibliography; Index; About the Author/Editor |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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Frontier and pioneer life
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781493024445 |
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1493024442 |
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