Review: Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter

Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter by Tom Clavin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3 out of 5 stars - It was ok

I enjoyed the information within this book. There were a lot of historical tidbits about Wild Bill and some great information about possibilities without making assumptions. I learned a lot about Wild Bill that I didn't know before, since I really only knew the name.

What I wish it didn't have was complete backgrounds of the people Wild Bill interacted with. While interesting, I didn't need the history on Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill. I wanted to read about Wild Bill. Instead of getting a quick summary of who the side characters were, we often got what felt like an entire chapter. (Being an audio book, I lost track of whether they were whole chapters or just parts of them.)

The narrator had a great voice for the topic, kind of gravely and western.

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