"The first thing you will notice about this engaging and delightful biography is that [Narrator Johnny Heller] sounds like a character actor who moseyed off the set of an old-fashioned oater. His voice is a little scratchy, a little seasoned and perfectly suits this biography of larger-than-life Bill Hickok and his pals, from Calamity Jane to Buffalo Bill Cody and General Custer." —The Berkshire Edge

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Luchetti, author of Women of the West and Children of the West, completes the demographic panorama in this absorbing, lavishly illustrated historical celebration. The Old West being the mythic heartland of masculinity, Luchettiś loosely structured thematic treatment has plenty of archetypes to explore, complicate or debunk, including mountain men, Forty-Niners, outlaws and sheriffs (often one and the same), cowboys and Indians and cavalry.

Explores the great westward migration on the Oregon Trail in the nineteenth century and the experiences of those who traveled that way.