[PDF] Wild Bill The Whirlwind Of The West eBook

Author : Don Russell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806115375

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Attempts to discern the truths behind the legends built up around his career.

Author : Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Cowboys
ISBN :

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Beautiful full color litho cover, stagecoach under attack from Indians, cameo portrait of W.F. Cody.

Author : Bob Dotson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0142180769

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“These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.” —Ken Burns More than six million people watch Bob Dotson’s Emmy award-winning segment, American Story, on NBC’s Today Show. For the last four decades, Dotson has traveled the country searching out inspiring individuals who quietly perform everyday miracles. In the process, he has become the treasured cartographer of America’s heart and soul. Today’s news is overwhelmingly grim; it’s also told by journalists who travel in herds as they trail politicians and camp out at big stories. In American Story, Dotson shines a light on America’s neglected corners, introducing readers to the ordinary Americans who have learned to fix what really matters.

Author : Paul Ashdown
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0809337894

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Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legend 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. Rather than attempt to tease truth from fiction, coauthors Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill investigate the ways in which Hickok embodied the culture of glamorized violence Americans embraced after the Civil War and examine the process of how his story emerged, evolved, and turned into a viral multimedia sensation full of the excitement, danger, and romance of the West. Journalists, the coauthors demonstrate, invented “Wild Bill” Hickok, glorifying him as a civilizer. They inflated his body count and constructed his legend in the midst of an emerging celebrity culture that grew up around penny newspapers. His death by treachery, at a relatively young age, made the story tragic, and dime-store novelists took over where the press left off. Reimagined as entertainment, Hickok’s legend continued to enthrall Americans in literature, on radio, on television, and in the movies, and it still draws tourists to notorious Deadwood, South Dakota. American culture often embraces myths that later become accepted as popular history. By investigating the allure and power of Hickok’s myth, Ashdown and Caudill explain how American journalism and popular culture have shaped the way Civil War–era figures are remembered and reveal how Americans have embraced violence as entertainment.