The Life and Times of “Wild Bill” Hickok in the Kansas City Area
Before he was known as “Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas City area – a period of his life little known to the public. Years later he would return as a national media star and living legend.
Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America
Although little remembered today, Robert Boatright was one of the greatest con men of the early 20th century. With the assistance of a confederacy of crooks known as the Buckfoot Gang, he preyed upon the Midwest gentry and fixed athletic contests in the turn-of-the-century Ozarks.