by Tom Clavin
Webb, William
Webster, Alonzo
Weiss, Joe
Wellman, Horace
The West of Wild Bill Hickok (Rosa)
Wheeler, O. W.
“Whirling Rope.” See Omohundro, John “Texas Jack”
Whistler (Oglala Sioux man)
Whiting, Charles C.
Wichita, Kansas
Wild Bill, the Indian-Slayer (pulp story)
“Wild Bill.” See Hickok, James Butler “Wild Bill”
Wild Bunch gang
Wilkinson, Allen
William Tecumseh Sherman and the Settlement of the West (Athearn)
Williams, Mike
Wilson, Ben
Wilson, Birdie
Wilson, John
Wilstach, Frank
Woods, James
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Cody
Fort Bridger
Fort Fetterman
Fort Laramie
Fort Phil Kearny
gold speculation in
“Wyoming Frank” (cowboy)
Yankton, South Dakota
Young, Harry “Sam”
Younger, Cole
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The Last Stand of Fox Company
Halsey’s Typhoon
Dark Noon
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About the Author
TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who has worked as a newspaper and web editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include The Heart of Everything That Is, Dodge City, and Valley Forge. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Author’s Note
Prologue
ACT I
1. A New England Clan
2. Bloody Kansas
3. Death at Rock Creek Station
4. Behind Enemy Lines
5. The Gunfighter
ACT II
6. Along the Chisholm Trail
7. Frontier Fame
8. Life of a Frontier Marshal
9. Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill
10. “They Killed Me”
11. The Man-Killer
12. The Two-Fisted Marshal
13. The Streets of Abilene
14. A Three-Ring Romance
ACT III
15. The Running of the Bulls
16. The Reluctant Thespian
17. The Cheyenne Loafer
18. A Woman Called Calamity
19. A Married Man
20. Deadwood Days
21. The Premonition
22. Dead Man’s Hand
Epilogue
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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About the Author
Copyright
WILD BILL. Copyright © 2019 by Tom Clavin. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Rob Grom
Cover photographs: Wild Bill Hickok © Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo; guns by the Dover Pictorial Archive; Back photographs: Wild Bill (left) © Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo; Wild Bill (center) © GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo; Scouts of the Plains Portrait © Hip/Art Resource, NY; banner © Romanova Ekaterina / Shutterstock.com; Deadwood © Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo
Frontispiece courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Clavin, Thomas, author.
Title: Wild Bill: the true story of the American frontier’s first gunfighter / Tom Clavin.
Description: First edition.|New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.|Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018041162|ISBN 9781250173799 (hardcover)|ISBN 9781250237729 (signed edition)|ISBN 9781250174017 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Hickok, Wild Bill, 1837–1876.|Peace officers—West (U.S.)—Biography.|Frontier and pioneer life—West (U.S.)|West (U.S.)—Biography.|West (U.S.)—History—1860–1890.
Classification: LCC F594.H62 C55 2019|DDC 978/.02092 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018041162
eISBN 9781250174017
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First Edition: February 2019
