Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout
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- being a true an exact history of all the sanguinary combats and hair-breadth escapes of the most famous scout and spy America ever produced
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1. Front matter2. LIFE AND MARVELOUS ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL, THE SCOUT.3. PECULIARITIES OF WILD BILL’S NATURE.4. WILD BILL’S EARLY LIFE.5. FIRST EVIDENCE OF PLUCK.6. BILL’S DESPERATE FIGHT AT ROCK CREEK7. A RUNNING FIGHT WITH CONFEDERATES.8. ENTERS THE UNION ARMY AS A SPY.9. A RIDE WITH DEATH.10. CAPTURED AND CONDEMNED TO DEATH.11. A FIGHT WITH THREE BUSHWHACKERS.12. BILL’S BOWIE-KNIFE DUEL WITH AN INDIAN CHIEF.13. INDIAN AND BUFFALO SPECULATION.14. BILL’S DUEL AT SPRINGFIELD.15. A QUADRANGULAR DUEL IN NEBRASKA.16. WILD BILL’S OPINION OF YANKEES.17. HOW BILL KILLED JACK STRAWHAN.18. BILL MULVEY’S LAST ROW.19. A FIGHT WITH FIFTEEN SOLDIERS.20. A DEATH FIGHT WITH TEXAS GAMBLERS.21. A REWARD OF $5,000 IN GOLD OFFERED FOR BILL’S HEART.22. BILL THOMPSON’S FATAL SURPRISE.23. MAKES TWENTY MEN ASK AN APOLOGY.24. BILL’S FIGHT WITH PHIL COLE’S COUSIN.25. HE REMOVES TO KANSAS CITY.26. A PRIZE FIGHT IN A CHICAGO BILLIARD ROOM.27. BILL’S MARRIAGE TO MRS. LAKE.28. MAKES HIS DEBUT ON THE STAGE.29. BILL’S LAST TRIP TO THE BLACK HILLS.30. ASSASSINATION OF WILD BILL.31. JACK McCALL PAYS THE PENALTY.32. WILD BILL’S REMAINS EXHUMED AND FOUND TO BE PETRIFIED.33. IDIOSYNCRACIES OF BILL—HIS BELIEF IN SPIRITS.34. BILL’S WONDERFUL ACCURACY OF AIM.35. BLACK NELL, THE WONDERFUL MARE.36. CONCLUSION—DOES BILL DESERVE A MONUMENT?