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English Pages xvii, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Year 2018
Table of contents :
In which Public Enemy Number One comes home --
In which the Wild West is born and dies and is resurrected from the bottom of the Mississippi River --
In which the Seventh Cavalry is defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and Buffalo Bill stars as himself in "The red right hand, or The first scalp for Custer" --
In which Sitting Bull is hired and heads east for the Wild West --
In which Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill join up in the city of Buffalo, and Tatanka Iyotake reunites with Annie Oakley --
In which an Indian and a Wasichu certify their alliance across the medicine line --
In which there comes a ghost dance, or, a horse from Buffalo Bill responds to the assassination of Sitting Bull, and other instances of the last days of the Wild West --
Epilogue.