The era of the gunfighter in the Wild West began during James Butler Hickok's life. Better known as "Wild Bill", he was the first and most famous gunfighter. A man without equal, who was said to have killed hundreds of outlaws in valiant and bloody struggles to the death, from which he invariably emerged the victor and the hero. Hickok himself was not above adding his own embellishments to the stories about himself to any reporter who sought him out...