Will “Medicine Bill” Comstock was an enigma to many of his contemporaries. Some claimed he was a half-breed Cheyenne, and others that he had been...
Will Comstock
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Joseph G. Rosa
California Joe: Great Scout and Plainsman
“Who was California Joe?” asked J.W. Buel in his Heroes of the Plains published in 1882, for Joe’s origin was as much a mystery to his...
Wild Bill Hickok and the Wrath of the Dead Rabbits
Many will assume that with such a title the book is meant to be humorous, but it is not. I doubt even the redoubtable Ned Buntline, in one of his...
A Pistoleer Poet?
James Butler Hickok proved on numerous occasions that he was neither gun nor camera shy, and his attraction to the opposite sex is also well known....
Prince of the Pistoleers
CO-EDITED BY JOSEPH G.ROSA & THADD M.TURNER Even in his own time, they called him “Wild Bill.” And, though this August marks the 125th...
From Troy Grove to the Tin Star
Long before he became acting sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas, and later marshal of Abilene, also Kansas, James Butler Hickok had served in several...