This 1995 Western, directed by Walter Hill, starts out as a ripsnorting bio-pic of James Butler Hickok (1837-76), a scout for the Union Army in the Civil War, and then a lawman, a gambler, and a gunfighter but as soon as Hickok hits the boomtown of Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory, it turns into a memory play.

NEWYORKER: Wild Bill