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*Includes biographies of each famous Western icon.
*Discusses the mysteries and legends of their famous lives and
deaths.
*Comprehensively covers legendary events like the Shootout at the
OK Corral, and the murders of Wild Bill and Jesse James.
*Includes a Bibliography on each person for further reading.
Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured
the American imagination like the "Wild West," which still evokes
images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom
brawls over 100 years after the West was settled. A constant
fixture in American pop culture, the 19th century American West
continues to be vividly and colorful portrayed not just as a place
but as a state of mind.
The spirit of adventure, the courage, the swagger, and even the
hard drinking and violence have all come to capture what it meant
to be an American at the time, and with so many interesting figures
straddling both sides of the law, morality has gone out the window.
Colorful lawmen like Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill became known for
meting out justice but also taking things into their own hands,
while Doc Holliday and Calamity Jane have gone down in history as
eccentric sidekicks. Outlaws like Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid remain just as well known, and they
have been long associated with daring heists and conspiracies
surrounding their deaths. And Buffalo Bill captured all of the
sights and sounds in his famous Wild West show, bringing the West
to life all over the world.
Each Western icon forged their own enduring legacy, but many of
them also knew each other. Wyatt Earp, the law enforcer, gambler,
saloon keeper, and vigilante, forged an unlikely friendship with
hot-tempered dentist turned gambler Doc Holliday that proved
pivotal in some of the West's most legendary events. Wild Bill and
Calamity Jane had one of the most legendary and mythologized
relationship, with Jane claiming they were married and Wild Bill's
friends claiming he could barely stand her.
Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), the "toughest and deadliest gunman of his
day," symbolized the swagger, the heroism, and even the lawlessness
of the West, notorious for being a law enforcer, gambler, saloon
keeper, and vigilante. Then there was John Henry "Doc" Holliday
(1851-1887), a dentist turned professional gambler who was widely
recognized as one of the fastest draws in the West and one of its
quirkiest figures. The only thing that might have been faster than
the deadly gunman's draw was his violent temper, which was easily
set off when Holliday was drunk, a frequent occurrence. By the
early 1880s, Holliday had been arrested nearly 20 times. And then
there's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the West's most famous
outlaw duo, who will always be associated with each other despite
the fact there's no indication that they had any particularly close
friendship or relationship aside from being members of the same
gang.
The Ultimate Wild West Collection chronicles the lives, legends,
myths, lies, and legacies of the West's most famous individuals,
separating fact from fiction and analyzing how they have affected
the past and the present. Along with pictures of important people,
places, and events, bibliographies, and a Table of Contents, you
will learn about these Western icons like never before.
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