They Called Him Wild Bill
The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok
Author: Joseph G. Rosa
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (1979)

From the Publisher:

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.

What others say:
"They Called Him Wild Bill is an extremely valid contribution to history. With access to much previously unavailable material the result is a much fuller and more accurate book than the first edition."
      -Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

"Rosa has pursued many obscure aspects of Hickok’s life...photographs, a chronology, and bibliography compliment the text, which will remain the standard work about Wild Bill Hickok for many years."
          -Montana Western History.

 

About the Author:
Joseph G. Rosa, who makes his home in Ruislip, Middlesex, England is the author of additional titles on 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. 399 pages.

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