Few bother to separate the myth of Colonel Hugh Cardiff from his real life. The nation knows him as a sharpshooter, buffalo hunter, moving pictures pioneer, and one-time proprietor of the greatest Wild West show the nation has ever seen. Some of the stories are true, some exaggerated, and some rank among the wildest of tall tales. But for a man who has lived like Colonel Cardiff, the facts trump the myth. In the spring of 1868, Denver is the richest, wildest city west of the Mississippi. When an overweight Easterner named ...
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Few bother to separate the myth of Colonel Hugh Cardiff from his real life. The nation knows him as a sharpshooter, buffalo hunter, moving pictures pioneer, and one-time proprietor of the greatest Wild West show the nation has ever seen. Some of the stories are true, some exaggerated, and some rank among the wildest of tall tales. But for a man who has lived like Colonel Cardiff, the facts trump the myth. In the spring of 1868, Denver is the richest, wildest city west of the Mississippi. When an overweight Easterner named Dr. Bogardus rolls into town to announce a shooting contest with a $1,000 prize, ears prick up. Young Hugh wins the shoot with an ancient muzzle-loading rifle, knocking glass balls out of the air and missing only four out of one hundred targets. He is famous at nineteen, and the Colonel's wild life is just getting started.
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Good. Size: 12mo-over 6? -7? " tall; First Dell Publishing Printing, 1980. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Spine heel scuffed; light wear to edges of cover. Binding solid and tight, all pages intact. Pages toned, clean and completely unmarked, no creases. A major television event from Metromedia. Lively adventures of a 'valorous hero, a venomous villain'. The years between the Civil War and Prohibition were wild times and Hugh Cardiff lived them to the hilt--champion rifle shot, sharpshooter, fugitive, showman, creator of the original Wild West Show, and much more. 574 pages. 12mo. 1980, Dell Publishing.
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