And Not to Yield and Bowie

Download or read book And Not to Yield and Bowie written by Randy Lee Eickhoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And not to yield: 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. Bowie: The story of James Bowie, the Texas frontiersman, told by some thirty people who range from Bowie's mother to a comrade-at-arms. A look from various points of view at certain aspects of Bowie's character and the historical events in which he participated.