Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory (Engaging the Civil War)

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.

• | Author: Paul Ashdown
• | Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• | Publication Date: September 09, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0809337886
• | ISBN-13: 9780809337880