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1876 The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) Created the Wild West, and Why It's Still with Us.

How Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse and Two Bills - Wild and Buffalo - created the Wild West during America's 100th birthday.

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Cover
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Year
Chapter 1: ""He was a good shot, and not afraid"" January: Bat Masterson and the Sweetwater Shootout
Chapter 2: ""I never heard him laugh"" May: Wyatt Earp comes to Dodge City
Chapter 3: ""Rascality so shameless"" Interlude: Money, politics, and other entertainments
Chapter 4: ""Thou of the sunny flowing hair"" June: The end of George Armstrong Custer
Chapter 5: ""First scalp for Custer!"" July: Buffalo Bill and the Duel at Warbonnet Creek
Chapter 6: ""My God, it talks!"" Interlude: Inventions, innovations, and the Philadelphia Fair
Chapter 7: ""Damn you, take that!"" August: Wild Bill's last hand
Chapter 8: ""Get your guns, boys, they're robbing the bank!"" September: The last ride of the James-Younger Gang
Chapter 9: ""Seven can't beat eight"" Interlude: Stealing a president-and the presidency
Part II: Aftermath
Chapter 10: ""The last of the greatest"" The two lives of Bat Masterson
Chapter 11: ""The bloke from Arizona"" Wyatt goes Hollywood
Chapter 12: ""The women who weep"" Two widows and a Calamity
Chapter 13: ""Is that you, Buck?"" Old outlaws and a ""dirty little coward
Chapter 14: ""Cody...you have fetched 'em!"" The world meets the Wild West
Chapter 15: Keepers of the Flame
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Index

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