Wild Bill Hickok - in Popular Culture

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It is difficult to separate the truth from fiction about Hickok, the first "dime novel" hero of the western era, in many ways one of the first comic book heroes, keeping company with another who achieved part of his fame in such a way, frontiersman Davy Crockett. In the dime novels, exploits of Hickok were presented in heroic form, making him seem larger than life. In truth, most of the stories were greatly exaggerated or fabricated by both the writers and himself. Wild Bill Hickok has featured as the central figure in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, an American western television program which ran from 1951 to 1958, in Wild Bill, a 1995 film starring Jeff Bridges and as a character in many other television and movie productions.

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