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02508aam a2200313 i 4500 001 A1909388A39211ED924352D529ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230203011453 008 220805s2022 caua b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1610885805 020 $a 9781610885805 035 $a (OCoLC)1338672761 040 $a IEP $b eng $e rda $c IEP $d IEP $d OCLCQ $d IWP $d SILO 043 $a n-usp-- $a n-usp-- 100 1 $a Wiegand, Steve, $d 1951- 245 10 $a 1876 : $b year of the gun : the year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse and the two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) created the Wild West, and why it's still with us / $c Steve Wiegand. 246 30 $a Year of the gun : $b the year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse and the two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) created the Wild West, and why it's still with us 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a La Crescenta, CA : $b Bancroft Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 430 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-430) and index. 520 $a "Wiegand introduces--or re-introduces--us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws such as the Younger and James Brothers, as well as larger-than-life figures such as Buffalo Bill and George Custer. He details the stories of these real-life legends, the aftermath and legacies they left behind, and the innumerable myths frequently attributed to them. Wiegand expands his contemporary spotlight on America's 100th birthday year to encompass what was going on in the rest of the country. On the very same day George Armstrong Custer was dying on a parched hill in southeastern Montana and immortalizing himself as both hero and villain, Alexander Graham Bell was at America's first World's Fair in Philadelphia, demonstrating his new invention--the telephone. At the same time Wyatt Earp was moseying into Dodge City to join the town's police force, Albert Goodwill Spalding was on a pitcher's mound in Chicago, establishing baseball as the national pastime and creating a sporting goods empire. And even as the James Boys and Younger Brothers were robbing banks, Democrats and Republicans were conspiring to steal the White House from the American voter"-- $c Provided by publisher 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1865-1898. 651 0 $a West (U.S.) $x History $y 1860-1890. 651 0 $a West (U.S.) $x Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203020024.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A1909388A39211ED924352D529ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search