AUG 9: ‘Year of the Gun’

On this date in 2022,  Bancroft Press publishes the hardcover edition of author Steve Wiegand’s book, “1876: Year of the Gun: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills (Buffalo and Wild) Created the Wild West, and Why It’s Still With Us.”

Wiegand is an award-winning journalist and history writer. His 35-year journalism career was spent at the San Diego Evening Tribune, where he was chief political writer; San Francisco Chronicle, where he was state capitol bureau chief, and Sacramento Bee, where he was a special projects writer and politics columnist.

He’s the author or co-author of 10 books, including The Dancer, the Dreamers and the Queen of Romania, and U.S. History for Dummies. He lives in Arizona.