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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…

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,…