“Hickok was a celebrity. He was famous. He was feared. He was already a legend. It is estimated that over fifteen hundred dime novels were written just about Buffalo Bill Cody, beginning in 1869, when he was only twenty-three, into the 1930s, and during the early years. Wild Bill was in that category of iconic […]
The post WILD BILL: The real man behind a Western legend — and a reluctant Broadway stage star appeared first on The Bowery Boys: New York City History.