The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok and Shadow on the Sun: Two Classic Westerns - Softcover

Matheson, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765393476 ISBN 13: 9780765393470

Publisher: Forge, 2017

Synopsis

THE MEMOIRS OF WILD BILL HICKOK
Gunfighter. US Marshall. Legend.

James Butler Hickok was a celebrity before there was a Hollywood...and he was dead before he was forty. Spur Award-winning author Richard Matheson delves into the life and times of the man behind the myth. The cruelty that turned him violent. The fears that drove him. And the unforgettable events that cause his name to live on more than a century later.

SHADOW ON THE SUN
Southwest Arizona. An uneasy truce exists between the remote frontier town of Picture City and the neighboring Apaches. That delicate peace is threatened when the mutilated bodies of two white men are found. The angry townspeople are certain the "savages" have broken the treaty, Billjohn Finley, the local Indian agent, but has another suspect in mind.

There's a tall, dark stranger in town, and he rode in wearing the dead men's clothes....

About this title

About the Author:

RICHARD MATHESON was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It..., and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. Matheson died in June, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0765393476
• ISBN 13: 9780765393470
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416