Includes biographies of each famous Western icon.
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.
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.
Each Western icon forged their own enduring legacy, but many of them also knew each other.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Includes a Bibliography on each person for further reading.
Comprehensively covers legendary events like the Shootout at the OK Corral, and the murders of Wild Bill and Jesse James.
Discusses the mysteries and legends of their famous lives and deaths.
Includes biographies of each famous Western icon
