Who was the man Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed in Abilene, Kansas?
John “Arizona” Crawley
Salem, Oregon
Mike Williams was a former bartender from Kansas City who went to Abilene to earn some extra money. He was working as a special deputy marshal to Wild Bill Hickok—primarily overseeing the jail.
On the night of October 5, 1871, he rushed to Hickok’s aid when the lawman got into a fracas with gambler Phil Coe. The marshal fatally shot Coe and then accidentally killed Williams as
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