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Man, this was a hard book to pin down. It's technically split into three parts, but to me, it seemed like two. The first half of the book was barely about Wild Bill at all, while the second half was more focused on the legend himself. I genuinely struggled to finish reading it, but in fairness to the author, I think that was rather my fault than his. I was fighting against the flow, trying to wrangle it back to where I thought it was supposed to be--focused on Wild Bill. However, at some point,
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Wild Bill Hickok was the rock star of his time. Here it is 2019 and I'm a huge fan 143 years later and this book is on the front display at book stores. After watching the HBO series Deadwood and visiting there (yes I went to his grave) he became a larger than life western Icon for me. The only problem with the book was the way that Clavin went on to so many other people, historical events and places way too much. It distracted from being a book about Wild Bill, it seemed like it was a filler to
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