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 Produced

----- 童子军的生命和奇妙的冒险

ISBN: 9781331510031 出版年：2016 页码：94 J W Buel Forgotten Books

Wild 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 flank his enemies.