Malaysian woman goes on a wild, Wild West adventure

The writer at the site where American pioneer legend Wild Bill Hickok was said to have been shot. — Photos: KALA RASIAH

My long-held fantasy of the American Wild West became a reality in May 2019.

I grew up on a diet of stories of the Wild West and its cowboys, Indians (or in today’s terms, Native Americans) and pioneers. As a teen, I used to sneakily read my elder brother’s collection of Western novels.