wild bill hickok

     

When Abilene decided to clean up its image in 1871, it dismissed this "wild" marshal

Trivia about wild bill hickok

  • For most of 1871, he was Marshal of Abilene, Kansas, one of the wildest towns in the Wild West
  • In 1861 this "Wild" gunslinger killed David McCanles & 2 others near Fairbury, Neb.; pulp novels upped the account to 30
  • In one of the few documented one-on-one Old West gunfights, this "Wild" man killed Davis Tutt in 1865
  • He was playing poker in a Deadwood saloon when he was shot dead by Jack McCall in 1876
  • This "wild" west hero was a Pony Express agent at Rock Creek Station near Fairbury, Nebraska
  • This legendary marshal joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1873, but only stayed a short time
  • On August 2, 1876 this gunfighter was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall in Deadwood
  • Jack McCall is best remembered for shooting this frontiersman while he was playing poker
  • In 1869 this "wild" & crazy guy killed 2 men as acting sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas
  • Calamity Jane's memoirs spread the tale of her torrid romance with this "Wild" westerner
  • In 1861 this great-great-grandfather of astronaut Bruce McCandless was killed by this "Wild" gunslinger near Fairbury
  • In 1876 Jack McCall shot this former Abilene marshal in the back of the head during a poker game in Deadwood
  • In 1876 this "Wild" West man was killed in the Dakota Territory holding aces & 8s, later known as a dead man's hand