And Not to Yield and Bowie: A Novel of the Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok

by Randy Lee Eickhoff, Leonard C. Lewis

The unforgettable stories of two legendary American frontiersmen by Randy Lee Eickhoff and Leonard C. Lewis in one low-priced edition!

And Not to Yield

Nurtured by devout, staunchly Abolitionist parents, young James Butler Hickok leaves their hardscrabble farm to homestead in Kansas. He effortlessly succeeds as a rancher, gambler, Union soldier, lawman, merchant, marksman―and lusty lover. But Hickok's many talents did not bring him peace. Guided and plagued by phantoms from his past, Hickok must fulfill his destiny through his travels. From bleak upstate New York to the rugged Badlands, from New York City's Broadway to the Rockies, from the Mississippi riverboats to the Great Salt Flats, here is the compelling odyssey of the gun-slinging American icon Wild Bill Hickok.

Bowie

Jim Bowie, the descendant of Highland Scots, grew up riding alligators and working the field on the Texas frontier. Taught three languages and a sense of honor, he went on to live a life filled with brawls and battles, loves and losses, a life cut short at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. This is his story, as told by those who, whether they loved or hated him, were united by their awe of this amazing frontiersman.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Westerns

816 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Tony Laplume · Rating 2 out of 5]

Finally decided to just not finish. Eickhoff is a hack who couldn’t distinguish between myth busting and his own clumsy literary efforts, sorely in need of an editor, padding out his book seemingly at random, often repeating himself to no benefit, never saw a description he didn’t think added appropriate color…It’s tremendously hard to see how this was published in the first place, let alone bundled together, later, with what I’m still hoping is a better read (he at least has a co-writer for Bowie, Leonard C. Lewis). Life’s too short to waste on bad writing for too long.

[Elsa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Couldn't get through this novel. I found it very all over the place, especially at the beginning. It felt like the author wasn't finishing their thought before changing the subject.

[Tony Laplume · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would not recommend finding Eickhoff and Lewis’s Bowie in this edition, as Eickhoff’s And Not to Yield (about Wild Bill Hickok) is far inferior to it. Included, however, is an epigraph from Eickhoff culled out of The Odyssey (Eickhoff’s own translation) that’s worth noting. Bowie is well worth reading, so if this is the only way you’re able to find it, just maybe don’t even bother with Yield. Everything good about Bowie is absent from it.