The West of Wild Bill Hickok
Author: Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (1994)

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From the Publisher:

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.

What others say:
"An exceptional photographic essay on one of the most intriguing characters to merge from the roistering post-Civil War West....Rosa has written a book that will be of great interest to scholars and buffs alike."
-South Dakota History

"In this volume-as one gazes into the face of the man Hickok in all his moods; as one is introduced to Hickok’s father and mother, his brothers and his sisters; as one sees the places and people that shared his experiences-the light softens, and Wild Bill emerges as a human being of flesh and bone."

-Great Plains Quarterly

"This is Wild Bill and the Wild West made easy. It is a skillful blend of photographs with useful, brief, and well-organized information....[D]escriptive sketches accompany the photographs of Hickok and his relatives, of cowtowns, guns, dime-novel covers, showbills, and such Western notables as John Brown, Joseph Alfred Slade, William Clark Quantrill, Sterling Price, George Armstrong, and Elizabeth Custer; particularly good friends, Henry Morton Stanley, John Wesley Hardin, and Calamity Jane; and perhaps Jack McCall, not a good friend."
-The Historian

 

Joseph G. Rosa, who makes his home in Ruislip, Middlesex, England is the author of the definitve biography of Hickok, They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok as well as Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier 1840-1900 and The Gunfighter: Man or Myth?

 

Paperback. 202 pages. 168 B&W illustrations.