The Real Wild Bill Hickok. Famous Scout and Knight Chivalric of the Plains A True Story of Pioneer Life in the Far West.

(HICKOK, James B. 'Wild Bill') EISELE, Wilbert E.

Published by Denver: William H. Andre, 1931

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Octavo, original red pictorial cloth, original dust jacket. First edition of Eisele's biography of the frontiersman, gunfighter, lawman and scout "Wild Bill" Hickok, with line engraved frontispiece portrait of Hickok, photographic portrait of the author, and ten wood-engraved illustrations, in the scarce original dust jacket."The event that brought Hickok both fame and notoriety and earned him his nickname was the killing of David McCanles at Rock Creek, Nebraska, in 1861… A dramatized recounting of McCanles's death written by George Ward Nichols appeared in an 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly. This story catapulted Wild Bill Hickok into the national limelight and made him the central figure of many dime novels" (ANB). Eisele's hagiography pushes Nichols' account even further into the fantastic, incorporating similar exaggerated accounts by J.W. Buel and Buffalo Bill in his 1879 Autobiography. Eisele's biography is nonetheless an entertaining account, and representative of 20th-century myth-making portraits of the "Old West" of the previous century. With "Collector's Edition" on copyright page, as called for by Adams. Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 668. Owner book label. Two black-and-white photographic prints of Colt's "Navy" revolver laid in (one mounted). Book clean and fine in the dust jacket with a small, closed tear to spine. A lovely copy. Seller Inventory # 405

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Real Wild Bill Hickok. Famous Scout and ...

Publisher: Denver: William H. Andre

Publication Date: 1931

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition