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"How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life--only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the 'gentleman bandit' and one of the West's mos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, David, 1946- (Author)
Other Authors: O'Reilly, Bill
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
West (U.S.) > Biography > Anecdotes.
West (U.S.) > History > Anecdotes.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Anecdotes.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Biographies.
Anecdotes.
Table of Contents:
  • Daniel Boone : traitor or patriot?
  • David Crockett : Capitol hillbilly
  • Kit Carson : duty before honor
  • Black Bart : gentleman bandit
  • Wild Bill Hickok : Plains justice
  • Bass Reeves : the real Lone Ranger
  • George Armstrong Custer : a general's reckoning
  • Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley : the radical opportunists
  • Jesse James : bloody politics
  • Doc Holliday : desperate measures
  • Billy the Kid : escape artist
  • Butch Cassidy : the last man standing.