Wild Bill Hickok
A Hickok Distraction

A Hickok Distraction

Wild Bill uses a ruse to kill Bill Mulvey. August 22, 1869. Tough nut Bill Mulvey is hurrahing Hays City, KS, firing his pistol in violation of town...

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Hardin and Hickok

Hardin and Hickok

As far as gunslingers go John Wesley Hardin and Wild Bill are reputed to have been equals at the top of the heap. So, what is the extent of the...

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He Talked His Life Away

He Talked His Life Away

Wild Bill Hickok was under constant fear of assassination by glory hunters. He spread newspapers on his bedroom floor at night in case someone tried...

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A Legend is Born

A Legend is Born

The legend of Wild Bill Hickok was born in 1867, when George Ward Nichols' article in "Harpers Weekly," made Wild Bill Hickok the Old West's first...

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Wild Bill Hickok

Wild Bill Hickok

Was Wild Bill Hickok ever a Deputy U.S. Marshal? Hickok joined the army in April 1861. In 1864 he was working as a policeman for a Capt. Squires in...

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Gunpowder and Smoke

Gunpowder and Smoke

The West was immense, and frontier law enforcement sparse.  Wise individuals carried firearms and knew how to use them. Some men and women became...

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Wild Bill

Wild Bill

Wild Bill Hickok was very likely a good marksman with a handgun, which was something of a rarity on the frontier; he also was supposedly a very...

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Aces and Eights

Aces and Eights

The question about what hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding has come up a number of times here's how the late Joe Rosa, Hickok's biographer explains...

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More Favorite Smoke Wagons

More Favorite Smoke Wagons

Reading the pulp westerns one would conclude that the Colt revolver was the only pistol used in the Old West. Remington built a fine six-shooter and...

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