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Discusses Crazy Bill's most famous shootouts and his murder, describing what's fact and what's star. Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Wild Monthly bill was a peculiar character. Increase this body a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the luxurious taste and design of a frontiersman, you have Crazy Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains." (Basic George Custer) Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever before captured the American creativeness like the Crazy Western, which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the Western was settled. A continuous fixture in American pop culture, the 19th-century American West continues to be vividly and multi-colored portrayed not only as a location but as circumstances of mind. In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Western series, listeners can get swept up to speed on the lives of America's most famous frontier figures in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. In many ways the narrative of the Crazy Western has endured more as star than certainty, and a perfect exemplory case of that can be within the star of James Butler Hickok (1837-1876), forever known as "Wild Bill". Indeed, separating fact from fiction when it comes to the life of Wild Monthly bill is nearly impossible, something credited in great solution to the fact that the person himself exaggerated his own adventures or fabricated experiences altogether. When he was killed while playing texas holdem in the mining South Dakotan outpost of Deadwood, he put Deadwood on the map and made certain both his place and his texas holdem hand's put in place legend.
