Wild Bill versus Davis Tutt.
It’s reputed to be the first (and one of the only) Hollywood-style gunfight in the Old West. On July 21st, 1865, Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt faced off in the Springfield, Missouri town square. The disagreement was over gambling. The two men firee at a distance of 75 yards. Tutt missed. Hickok’s shot hit Tutt in the heart. Tutt staggered back towards the courthouse and cried out, “Boys I am killed!” And he was. Wild Bill’s legend was cemented with that gunfight.
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