John Richard Stephens 
Wildest Lives of the Wild West 
America through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous Westerners

By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of these legendary figures as they describe their own personal experiences, impressions, what life in the frontier West was like, reveal the roles they played in notable events in American history.