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The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok and Shadow on the Sun

The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok and Shadow on the Sun

by Richard Matheson
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/08/2017
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THE MEMOIRS OF WILD BILL HICKOK
Gunfighter. US Marshall. Legend.

James Butler Hickok was a celebrity before there was a Hollywood...and he was dead before he was forty. Spur Award-winning author Richard Matheson delves into the life and times of the man behind the myth. The cruelty that turned him violent. The fears that drove him. And the unforgettable events that cause his name to live on more than a century later.

SHADOW ON THE SUN
Southwest Arizona. An uneasy truce exists between the remote frontier town of Picture City and the neighboring Apaches. That delicate peace is threatened when the mutilated bodies of two white men are found. The angry townspeople are certain the "savages" have broken the treaty, Billjohn Finley, the local Indian agent, but has another suspect in mind.

There's a tall, dark stranger in town, and he rode in wearing the dead men's clothes....

ISBN:
9780765393470
9780765393470
Category:
Westerns
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-08-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tom\Doherty#Associates, LLC
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
191.01x106.43x27.43mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It…, and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.

He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels Matheson wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," based on his short story, along with several other Twilight Zone episodes.

He was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Matheson died in June, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven.

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