Excerpt from Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout: Being a True and Exact History of All the Sanguinary Combats and Hair-Breadth Escapes of the Most Famous Scout and Spy America Ever ProducedWild bill, as a frontier character of the daring, cunning and honorable class, stands alone, without a prototype, his originality is as conspicuous as his remarkable escapades. He was desperate without being a desperado, a fighter without that disposition which invites danger or craves the excitement of an encounter. He killed many men, but in every in stance it was either in self-defense or in the prosecu tion of a duty which he deemed justifiable. Wild Bill was a necessary character in the Far West dur ing the period which marked his career. He was essentially a civilizer, in the sense of a vigilance posse. The law and order class found in him an effective agent for the correction of the lawless, it was fighting the desperate with one of their kind, and Bill had the cunning to remain on the Side of society and to always ¿ank his enemies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.