Category: Book Reviews

“…enjoyed it from front cover to footnotes.” “…superb job in the research and writing of this book” “…well written” “…it was an absolute pleasure to follow this journey”

When I spoke to author Craig Crease about his book “The Wanderer: James Butler Hickok and the American West” for a story in early 2024, I agreed to write a review.  Crease’s book definitely opened up my mind and gave me multiple layers of information and knowledgeon Hickok. It reads as a true biography starting with…

Excellent New Biography of Wild Bill September 6, 2024

Historian Craig Crease knows Hickok. He knows the mythological Hickok and he knows the real man too. Or, at least as well as someone who could know a person who has been dead since 1876.

Have you ever seen a reviewer state, “This is a book you just can’t put down?” Well, this book is it! Craig Crease’s superb new biography of “Wild Bill” Hickok will supplant those of eminent English historian and scholar Joseph Rosa, and that is saying a lot based on this reviewer’s cherished memories of Rosa,…

A seminal and ground-breaking biography of one of the most iconic figures of the American West, “The Wanderer: James Butler Hickok and the American West” by Craig Crease is an inherently fascinating and informative read from cover to cover. Informatively enhanced for the reader’s benefit with the inclusion of 3 Appendices, twenty pages of Notes,…