The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok

Wild Bill Hickok was a celebrity before there ever was a Hollywood.#xA0; And he was dead before he was forty. Now Richard Matheson, Spur Award-winning author of Journal of the Gun Years, delves into the life and times of James Butler Hickok . . . gunfighter, U.S. marshal, legend.#xA0; The cruelty that turned him violent.#xA0; The fears that drove him.#xA0; And the historic events that cause his name to live on more than century later. A compelling vision of the man behind the myth--and an unforgettable journey into the American frontier.