![]() ![]() Once, in a bar in Nebraska, he was confronted by four men, three of whom he killed in the ensuing gunfight. He would be buried however, next to fabled frontierswoman Calamity Jane.Įven before his death, Wild Bill became a legend, with fiction sometimes supplanting fact in the stories that surfaced. Wild Bill also fell in love-multiple times-before marrying the true love of his life, Agnes Lake, the impresario of a traveling circus. He crossed paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs gunning for the sheriff with the quickest draw west of the Mississippi. ![]() James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO-the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. ![]()
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