John Wayne will always be my favorite, followed by Clint Eastwood and Tom Selleck. Selleck's westerns are highly underrated if you ask me.
Historical figures, Wild Bill always impressed me as the real thing. He practiced regularly and was very good at what he did. As for the comparison to Annie Oakley, Hickock was a killer, Annie was a shooter. Big difference. Takes more than shooting skill to look a man in the eye and kill him dead.
As for Sherman, a man who waged war on women, children and farms in an effort to "punish the South" (his own words), I got no use for him and would spit in his eye if he were alive today. He was a coward and a war criminal.
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