Imagining Wild Bill
Subtitle: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780809337880
Subjects: America, history
Description: "By investigating the allure and power of Wild Bill 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."--