Born during the Civil War on December 6, 1864, in Newburgh, New York, William Surrey Hart was one of seven children of the first U.S.-born generation of his Irish immigrant mother and English-born father.
As a youngster, Hart fell in love with the West when his family lived in Dakota Territory. Young William rode bareback and played with the children of homesteaders and Sioux Indians until he was 15,when the family moved back East to city life—and work.
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