The Wanderer

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  • The Tombstone Epitaph Review

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    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. In Crease’s new book, the author strips away the many years of mythmaking that fostered a bloodthirsty gunman and revealed…

  • Wild West History Association Journal

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    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,…

  • Library Bookwatch Review

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    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,…