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Was Mike Williams an Abilene, Kansas, deputy at the time of the gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and Phil Coe?

by | Mar 1, 2006 | Inside History

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George Bourbeau Calhan, Colorado I went straight to the source himself, Joe Rosa, to get the straight skinny on this. He examined available records and newspapers. (The coroner’s report was reportedly destroyed in a courthouse fire in the late 1870s.) Council minutes show that Mike Williams acted as one of the two city jailers during the summer of 1871, but he was never on the police force as such. On the evening of October 5, 1871, he was preparing to leave for Kansas City to visit h


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