Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends (South

Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends (South Dakota Biography Series)

Myths surround these two Wild West legends synonymous with the town of Deadwood. Although Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane spent only a few weeks in Deadwood at the same time, their fame and fate have become intertwined and their relationship legendary. James D. McLaird examines the contemporary accounts that turned these two Wild West wanderers into dime-novel and motion-picture stars. Contemporary novelists and journalists created an astonishingly strong legacy for both Calamity Jane and Wild Bill, accounting for much of their notoriety. Gun fights, scouting missions, and daring escapes from enemies filled stories about the dashing pair; even their day-to-day existence seems to have been fraught with danger and excitement, teetering on the brink between lawful and unlawful. McLaird traces the role that writers and the city of Deadwood itself played in the creation of the legacies of the famous couple. Fact and fiction have become so intertwined that a definitive picture of Calamity Jane and Wild Bill is almost impossible. Their brief friendship and subsequent burial next to each other in Mount Moriah Cemetery simply added to their legendary status and made them stalwarts of Wild West pop culture and Deadwood mythology. Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends is the second book in the South Dakota Biography Series.
Country USA
Brand South Dakota State Historical Society
Manufacturer South Dakota Historical Society
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780977795598
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	South Dakota State Historical Society
Manufacturer	South Dakota Historical Society
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780977795598
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends (South Dakota Biography Series)

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