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  • Imagining Wild Bill

    James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory

    Series series Engaging the Civil War
    Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legendWhen it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s story was no exception. Mythologized and sensationalized, Hickok was turned into the deadliest gunfighter of all, a so-called moral killer, a national phenomenon even while he was alive.Rather than attempt to tease truth from ... Read more

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  • Entertaining History

    The Civil War in Literature, Film, and Song

    Series series Engaging the Civil War
    Popular media can spark the national consciousness in a way that captures people’s attention, interests them in history, and inspires them to visit battlefields, museums, and historic sites. This lively collection of essays and feature stories celebrates the novels, popular histories, magazines, movies, television shows, photography, and songs that have enticed Americans to learn more about our ... Read more

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  • Inventing Custer

    The Making of an American Legend

    Series series The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
    Custer’s Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger conflict, Custer became legend. In Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend, Edward Caudill and Paul ... Read more

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    Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

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  • Idaho Falls

    The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident

    The little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disaster—years before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima.Before the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster, the world's first nuclear reactor meltdown to claim lives happened on US soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, an experimental military reactor located in Idaho's Lost River ... Read more

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    or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

    After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure readers today associate with the cowboy era. He "rid the Chisholm trail," driving 2,500 heads of cattle from Austin to Kansas; knew Tascosa**—now a historic monument—**when it was home to raucous ... Read more

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  • When Law Was in the Holster: The Frontier Life of Bob Paul

    The Frontier Life of Bob Paul

    One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830–1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills crucial gaps in ... Read more

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    A History of Medicine Bow, Wyoming

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    Elegies and Bygone Places

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