The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok - Softcover

Matheson, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765362279 ISBN 13: 9780765362278

Publisher: Forge, 2009

Synopsis

Wild Bill Hickok was a celebrity before there ever was a Hollywood. And he was dead before he was forty.

Now Richard Matheson, Spur Award-winning author of Journal of the Gun Years, delves into the life and times of James Butler Hickok . . . gunfighter, U.S. marshal, legend. The cruelty that turned him violent. The fears that drove him. And the historic events that cause his name to live on more than century later.

A compelling vision of the man behind the myth--and an unforgettable journey into the American frontier.

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About the Author:

Richard Matheson is The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Other Kingdoms, 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, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels, Matheson wrote screenplays, and he wrote for several Twilight Zone episodes, including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” based on his short story. He was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. He lives in Calabasas, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0765362279
• ISBN 13: 9780765362278
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 230