Do any records indicate Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok met?
John McCaffer
Queen Creek, Arizona
Wild Bill Hickok biographer Joe Rosa clears up the story for us: “I believe that it was Stuart Lake who first suggested they did meet, in his fictional biography of Earp. I think he based the meeting on the story that Hickok put some shots from his pistol into a saloon sign one hundred yards away. But his date of 1871 in Market Square, in Kansas City [Missouri], does not make sense. Hickok di
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