Wild Bill: The True Story Of The American Frontier's First Gunfighter

TOM CLAVIN

Publication: St Martin's Press, 2019, New York

First edition. 8vo. Black boards, titles stamped in copper on the spine, pictorial decorated front and rear endpapers, xiii [blank], 320 pp., author's note, prologue, illustrated from photographs, epilogue, acknowledgments, selected bibliography, index. A biography of "Wild Bill" Hickok, 1837-1876. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, Missouri ... the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Hickok is remembered as a "good" gunfighter, one who used his six-shooters either in the line of duty to uphold justice or for self-protection in rough places like Kansas' Hays City and Abilene. The author relates Wild Bill's gunfights rather succinctly while giving equal time to other aspects of his short, adventure-filled life ... his scout and frontier heroics, his association with Buffalo Bill through the years, his stint as a reluctant thespian, his marriage to Agnes Thatcher Lake, his time as a gambler in Cheyenne, later life as a "marked man" with failing eyesight, his relationship (before and after death) with Calamity Jane and, finally, his death in Deadwood at the hands of Jack McCall. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

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