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Hickok’s Twist of Fate

by | Sep 2, 2022 | Features & Gunfights

Wild Bill’s 1870 drunken brawl with Custer’s troopers is as legendary as the man of many names he killed.   On July 17, 1870, Wild Bill Hickok had one whale of a brawl in Tommy Drum’s saloon in Hays City, Kansas. What makes this fight arguably Hickok’s most important is that he killed a trooper in Custer’s 7th Cavalry who had earlier been awarded t


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