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And Not to Yield

A Novel of the Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok

Author: Randy Lee Eickhoff

And Not to Yield

And Not to Yield

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Born James Butler Hickok, Wild Bill Hickok made his reputation as a gunslinger extraordinaire, and his legend has titillated journalists, novelists, and historians ever since. Here is the story---crafted...

Page Count
432
On Sale
04/01/2005

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Born James Butler Hickok, Wild Bill Hickok made his reputation as a gunslinger extraordinaire, and his legend has titillated journalists, novelists, and historians ever since. Here is the story---crafted by a master novelist---of this complex hero whose exploits have become part of the lore of the American frontier.

Nurtured by devout, staunchly Abolitionist parents, young Hickok quickly leaves their hardscrabble farm to homestead in Kansas. A true romantic and a Renaissance man, nourished by Greek and Arthurian legends, he effortlessly succeeds as a rancher, gambler, Union soldier, Indian fighter, lawman, baseball umpire, merchant, actor, marksman nonpareil---and lusty lover of whores, debutantes, and Libbie Custer.

But Hickok's many talents could not bring him peace. Guided and plagued by phantoms from his past, blessed and cursed with supernatural gifts, Hickok, like his hero Ulysses, must fulfill his destiny through his travels. From bleak upstate New York to the rugged Badlands, from New York City's Broadway to the Rockies, from the Mississippi riverboats to the Great Salt Flats, here is the compelling Odyssey of an American icon, told in Randy Lee Eickhoff's unforgettable voice.



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Imprint Publisher

Forge Books

ISBN

9781466838499

In The News

“A brilliant, mysterious, and in the end poetic capture of that romantic American figure, the Western gunfighter of old. Wild Bill Hickok comes fully alive in these pages---and dies with equal force.” —David Nevin, New York Times bestselling author of Meriwether on And Not to Yield

“Eickhoff presents a poetic, yet violent fiction account of Wild Bill Hickok.” —Elmer Kelton on And Not to Yield

“An epic novel of an epic life . . . Robust, rich and vigorous, And Not to Yield is a thorough pleasure.” —Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Garden on And Not To Yield

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And Not to Yield

And Not to Yield

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