Colorado Charlie Utter is best known as Wild Bill Hickok’s best friend, the man who led the wagon train that brought the gunfighter (and Calamity Jane) to Deadwood. A few weeks later, Utter buried the gunfighter and reinterred the remains in 1879.
Utter then drifted across the West, mostly running saloons and dance halls. Stories say he mo
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