Wild Bill Sullivan: King of the Hollow

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The rollicking history of a dreaded real-life figure within the folklore of the Mississippi backwoods Thanks to the subject of this fascinating book, Sullivan’s Hollow, a seemingly idyllic valley in south Mississippi, gained its rightful position a few of the notorious place names in American folklore. To the citizenry within the hamlets of Sullivan’s Hollow Wild Bill Sullivan was once the fearsome local rascal whose bent for pranks, jokes, and chicanery somewhat continuously verged at the murderous. To travelers his name inspired a deadly dread of a possibility meeting with him on a lonely trail. Wild Bill’s love of liquor and his bounding out and in of trouble embellished his darkly checkered reputation. For the annals of folklore he’s prime material. Here for the first time in paperback is the story of this nineteenth-century Mississippi maverick, as told by his great-granddaughter. She recounts stories of his best-known “pranks”-such as stripping a Bible peddler naked and hitching him all day to a plow, and she puts a believable face at the legend of Wild Bill’s having killed fifty men (or more, as the story proliferates). What reader of this book could fail to imagine that no traveler wanted to be passing through Sullivan’s Hollow after sundown?

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