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May 24, 2018 · During the Battle of Pea Ridge, Wild Bill got permission to place a band of sharpshooters (including himself) on a ridge to allow for a clear view of oncoming rebels. When a Confederate officer fell in the trenches, the sharpshooters believed James had killed enemy commander Gen. Ben McCulloch.
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The Truth about Wild Bill; Custer and Hostages; Highways to...
- A Rose by Any Other Name
- One of Hickok’s First Jobs Was as A Bodyguard
- He Saved A Young Buffalo Bill Cody from A Beating
- He Is Said to Have Wrestled A Bear
- The Mccanles Massacre Made His Name
- Wild Bill Was Involved in One of The First Fast-Draw Duels
- He Was Fired For Shooting His Own Deputy
- He Acted Alongside Buffalo Bill
- He Walked Out on His Wife to Hunt Gold
- Hickok Was Murdered While Playing Cards
- Hickok Was Holding The Dead Man’S Hand When He Died
The man who would become Wild Bill was born James Butler Hickok in 1837 in Homer (now Troy Grove), Illinois. In his late teens, he moved west to Kansas, where a small-scale civil war was raging over slavery. After joining a band of antislavery fighters, the Free State Army of Jayhawkers, he was assigned to protect its leader, controversial politici...
Around this time, young James Hickok began using his father’s name of William – the ‘Wild’ part came later – and he also met Buffalo Bill Cody, then just a messenger boy on a wagon train. Hickok saved Cody from getting beaten by another man and the two became longtime pals.
One of the best-known stories about Hickok is his encounter with a bear. After serving as a constable in Monticello, Kansas, he worked as a teamster driving freight across the country. On a run from Missouri to New Mexico, he found the road obstructed by a bear and its two cubs. Hickok shot the mother in the head, but that only made it angry and it...
Still convalescing, Hickok moved to work at the Rock Creek Pony Express station in Nebraska. One day in July 1861, David McCanles, the man who had sold the station to the Pony Express on credit, showed up demanding back payments. After McCanles reportedly made threats, either Hickok or station chief Horace Wellman shot him from behind a curtain tha...
During the American Civil War, Hickok served as a teamster, scout and, some say, spy before resigning and living as a gambler in Springfield, Missouri. There, on 21 July 1865, another event that framed his gunslinging reputation occurred. During a poker game, tensions with a former friend, Davis Tutt, came to a head over gambling debts, triggering ...
From 1869 to 1871 Hickok served as a marshal in the Kansas towns of Hays City and Abilene, getting involved in several shootouts. In October 1871, after shooting an Abilene saloon owner, he suddenly glimpsed another figure running towards him out of the corner of his eye and fired twice. It turned out to be his Special Deputy Marshal, Mike Williams...
Now no longer a lawman, Hickok turned to the stage to make a living. In 1873 his old friend Buffalo Bill Cody asked him to join his troupe and the two performed together in Rochester, New York. But Hickok disliked the theatre – even shooting out a spotlight during one performance – and began drinking. He left the troupe and returned west.
Now 39 and suffering from glaucoma, which affected his shooting skills, he married circus owner Agnes Thatcher Lake but left her shortly after to seek his fortune hunting gold in the Black Hills of Dakota. He travelled to the town of Deadwood, South Dakota,aboard the same wagon train as another famous western hero, Calamity Jane, who would later be...
On 1 August 1876 Hickok was playing poker in the Nuttal & Mann’s Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood. For some reason – likely because there was no other seat available – he was sitting with his back to the door, something he didn’t normally do. In walked drifter Jack McCall, who pulled out his gun and shot him in the back of the head. Hickok died instantly....
Reports say that at the time of his death Hickok was holding two black aces and two black eights, plus another unknown card. Since then this has been known as the ‘Dead Man’s Hand’, a cursed card combination that has been shown in the fingers of many a film and TV character.
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights.
Wild Bill Hickok, American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. His reputation as a gunfighter gave rise to legends and tales about his life. He was one of the early heroes of the West popularized in the dime novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dec 12, 2014 · William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, the showman (among other things), and James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, the gunfighter (among other things), do have some shared history in both the factual American West and in the legends that draw people to the subject of the American West.
Apr 2, 2014 · History & Culture. Wild Bill Hickok was an American frontiersman, army scout and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. Updated: Jul 28, 2020 5:54 PM EDT. (1837-1876) Who Was...
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Jul 21, 2015 · On July 21, 1865, frontier legend Wild Bill Hickok gunned down gambler Davis Tutt in what is often called the first “Wild West” showdown.
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