Cover image for Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West / written by David Fisher ; [introduction by Bill O'Reilly].
TITLE:
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West / written by David Fisher ; [introduction by Bill O'Reilly].
Alternate Title:
Legends & lies : the real West

Legends and lies : the real West

Real West
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt and Company,
Physical Description:
vii, 294 p. : col. ill., col. maps.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292).
Summary:
How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman -- and was he African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and one of the West's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans have grown up on TV shows, movies and books about these western icons. But what really happened in the Wild West? All the stories you think you know are here -- some heroic, some brutal and bloody, all riveting. Included are the ten legends featured in Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies docu-series -- from Kit Carson to Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok to Doc Holliday -- accompanied by two bonus chapters on Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. Frontier America was a place where instinct mattered more than education, and courage was necessary for survival. It was a place where luck made a difference and legends were made.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781627795074
General Note:
"The companion volume to the Fox News series"

"The truth about some very famous people. It's not always pretty"