In the "dimestore novels', exploits of Hickok were presented in heroic form, making him seem larger than life. James Butler Hickok, a.k.a. In this town there was a young man, in jail, being threatened by an angry lynch mob. Hickok managed to fire another shot, wounding the bear's paw. Wild Bill emerged onto the street, immediately drew one of his .36 caliber SA Navy revolvers, and, at a 75-yard stand-off distance, fired a single shot into McCanles's chest, killing him instantly (ref. 10. Hickok came to the West as a stagecoach driver, then became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. [61], Hickok died instantly. In 1859, he joined the Russell, Majors and Waddell freight company, the parent company of the Pony Express. Duck Bill and Shanghai Bill B. Hickock (sic) (Wild Bill) formerly of Cheyenne, Wyoming. [9][41], The second killed by Hickok was Samuel Strawhun, a cowboy, who was causing a disturbance in a saloon at 1:00 am on September 27, when Hickok and Lanihan went to the scene. Not a word was uttered. This particular regiment was destined to become immortal. True Story: Wild Bill Hickok, Sheriff Of Deadwood One of the most fascinating historical figures from the days of the American wild west is Wild Bill Hickok. [50] The two entrepreneurs had painted a picture of a bull with a large erect penis on the side of their establishment as an advertisement. He was assigned Buffalo Bill Cody, a sergeant, and five privates. Politics Astrological Sign:. The bear attacked, crushing Hickok with its body. Hickok continued his duties hunting horse thieves and illegal woodcutters, for the Army. Hickok was on a winning streak and Tutt, frustrated, requested that he repay a $40 loan, which Hickok did. Pard, we will meet again in the happy hunting ground to part no more. Well, sort of. The family home even had a hidden cellar which they would use to hide the escapees. Tilghman would later become a famous western Marshal himself. There's no more iconic scene in Western movies than the good old-fashioned pistol duel, where the lawman and the outlaw meet at high noon to see who's faster on the draw. [69] In 1979, Hickok was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Hickok's killing of Whistler the Peacemaker with a long-range rifle shot had influence in preventing the Sioux from uniting to resist the settler incursions into the Black Hills. Dziki Bill Hickok, waciwie James Butler Hickok (ur.27 maja 1837 w Homer, obecnie Troy Grove w stanie Illinois; zm. Tilghman wrote; "He was mounted on no prancing charger, only a sturdy government mule, but he rode with the easy grace of a Plainsman. This, in turn, was destroyed by souvenir hunters and replaced in 1902 by a life-sized sandstone sculpture of Hickok. The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok was a 1950s TV series starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine. [17], In September 1865, Hickok came in second in the election for City Marshal of Springfield. Lonergan pinned Hickok to the ground, and Kyle put his gun to Hickok's ear. But also he was a man of gentleness and tender caring for the weak and helpless. [81], Hickok's birthplace is now the Wild Bill Hickok Memorial and is a listed historic site under the supervision of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. ", Judge Boyd said, "That when danger is threatened and impending a man is not compelled to stand with his arms folded until it is too late to offer successful resistance, and if the jury believe from the evidence that Tutt was a fighting character and a dangerous man and that [Defendant] was aware such was his character and that Tutt at the time he was shot by the Deft. After the war, Hickok became a scout for the U. S. Army and later was a professional gambler. Sometime between 1860 and early 1861 Hickok was injured, some say in a confrontation with a bear, and the freight company put him on light duty status at the Rock Creek Station in the Nebraska territory. Hickok was reported to be an inveterate hater of Indians, but it is difficult to separate fact from fiction. [51], Hickok was relieved of his duties as marshal less than two months after the accidental shooting, this incident being only one of a series of questionable shootings and claims of misconduct during his career. The entire mob instantly suffered from an inability to move forward, and gradually the crowd dispersed. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. I would have rather been somewhere else, but Bill stopped. The 10th arrived at Fort Lyon, Colorado, in October and remained for the rest of 1868. Hickok's brother, Lorenzo Butler Hickok, traveled from Illinois to attend the retrial and spoke to McCall after the trial, noting that he showed no remorse. [5] William Hickok died in 1852, when James was 15. Mistakenly thinking he had killed Hudson, Hickok fled and joined General Jim Lane's vigilante Free State Army ("The Red Legs") where he met 12-year-old William Cody, later to be known as "Buffalo Bill," who at that time was a scout for Johnston's Army. Hickok didn't seem to feel comfortable with all the "make believe" and never quite fit in. In 1876, Hickok was diagnosed by a doctor in Kansas City, Missouri, with glaucoma and ophthalmia, a condition that was widely rumored at the time by Hickok's detractors to be the result of various sexually transmitted diseases. The truth is no one knows for sure. Friends of the beaten toughs now wanted to even the score, and had attracted a large crowd of sympathizers. He would put a list on what was called the "dead man's tree" (so called because men had been lynched on it) while constable of Monticello Township. At the time of the so-called McCanles Massacre, Hickok was known as Duck Bill because of his sweeping nose and protruding upper lip (covered with a mustache later in life). [citation needed], On August 1, 1876, Hickok was playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. As Hickok biographer Joseph Rosa states, in his definitive book "They Called Him Wild Bill", "thus the two were linked together in a relationship in death which had never existed in life". Hickok ordered him to be arrested for firing a pistol within the city limits. She arrived in Abilene in 1871. The bully frightened his friend and James, always a defender of the weak, promptly picked the bully up and then threw him into the water. Hardin left Kansas before Hickok could arrest him. Hickok accused a J.V. Sadly, William Alonzo Hickok died when James was just 15 years old. A famous Harper's Magazine article credited Hickok with slaying 10 men that day; by the 1870s, his career-long kill count was up to 100. He walked up to Hickok and calmly shot him in the back of the head, killing Hickok instantly. 1621. He joined a Quaker group that was involved in the business of assisting escaped slaves. Hickok's father, William Alonzo Hickok, came from Vermont. His reputation as a gunfighter gave rise to legends and tales about his life. Hickok could see the front door to the saloon, but not the back door. Wild Bill Hickok was born James Butler Hickok in Homer, Illinois on May 27, 1837. Funeral services will be held at Charlie Utter's Camp, on Thursday afternoon, August 3, 1876, at 3 o'clock, P. M. All are respectfully invited to attend." Lonergan was shot in the knee while Kile, who was shot twice, died the next day. Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, SD Spouse: Agnes LAKE b. WILD BILL HICKOK. He served as a Union scout in the Civil War. http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hickok&GSfn=james Death of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok a Burial of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, "Wild Bill", "Wild Bill Hickok", "Hickock", Deadwood, Lawrence, South Dakota, United States, Abolitionist, facilitator of the Underground Railroad, Lawman, Gunfighter, Gambler, U.S. Includes citations for all sources. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. [d] The jury voted to clear Hickok, resulting in public backlash and criticism of the verdict. The two men, Hickok and Custer, became good friends. Hickok's brother, Lorenzo Butler Hickok, traveled from Illinois to attend the retrial. Was he shooting back? It is recorded that before "Buffalo Bill" developed his "Wild West show, others had attempted similar productions. Different versions of what occurred that day exist, depending upon which side one relies on. In his 1895 autobiography (published after his own death and 19 years after Hickok's), Hardin claimed to have disarmed Hickok using the famous road agent's spin during a failed attempt to arrest him for wearing his pistols in a saloon. It won the Best Song Oscar for "Secret Love", by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster . [6][35] Witnesses confirm that while working as a scout at Fort Harker, Kansas, on May 11, 1867, Hickok was attacked by a large group of Indians, who fled after he shot and killed two. Paramount Pictures' Western silent film Wild Bill Hickok (released on November 18, 1923) was directed by Clifford Smith and stars William S. Hart as Hickok. Shull said that McCanles was a "horse thief stealing horses for the Confederacy. [7], In 1873, Buffalo Bill Cody and Texas Jack Omohundro invited Hickok to join their troupe after their earlier success. Yes, if it was necessary. [f], The regular county election was held on November 2, 1869. And, that he hadn't "gambled" in two years! Hickok and Lanihan, however, remained sheriff and deputy, respectively. Bryant, William C (1794-1878) -( PBryant, .., FCooke1) - American poet and long time editor of New York Evening Post, abolitionist supporter of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). [citation needed], Henry M. Stanley, of the Weekly Missouri Democrat, reported Hickok to be "an inveterate hater of Indian People", perhaps to enhance his reputation as a scout and American fighter, but separating fact from fiction is difficult considering his recruitment of Indians to cross the nation to appear in his own Wild West show. Shortly before Hickok's death, he wrote a letter to his new wife, which reads in part: "Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife-Agnes-and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore" and "My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you", http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=479&ref=wvr. Rosa conjectures that Wellman had far more of a motive to kill McCanles, a belief supported by McCanles' son's own account. [40]:196, In September 1869, his first month as sheriff, Hickok killed two men. Almost the entire town attended the funeral, and Utter had Hickok buried with a wooden grave marker reading: Wild Bill, J. "The Custer-Hickok Shootout in Hays City. Hardin was in town under his assumed name Wesley Clemmons, but was better known to the townspeople by the alias "Little Arkansas". Since no official action was taken by the Army, against Hickok, it must be assumed that he acted in self-defense. He usually kept his back to walls, and avoided open doorways and windows. Not having the courage to do it himself, he one day filled about 200 cowboys with whiskey intending to get them into trouble with Wild Bill, hoping that they would get to shooting and in the melee shoot the marshal. However, by the early 1860's it was known as Troy Grove. One night while wandering around New York City he came into a pool room. Few stayed around to find out if he was serious. ", Rosa, Joseph G. (1982). That man was Wild Bill Hickok. He quickly became known as a superb marksman. Each taking an equal chance of living or dying. Finally, her "friends" decided to also change the date of her death. McCanles also acted as the stations manager before the company replaced him with Horace Wellman, and McCanles had reputedly ridiculed Hickok during his convalescence from his injuries. According to the story, Hickok placed himself between the crowd and their intended victim. News of an arriving cattle herd was met with conflicting emotions in old Abilene. Family filter: On; All videos. Of course there was not a shred of evidence or documentation to verify this outlandish claim. [10], Hickok 1869. On July 21, 1865, in the town square of Springfield, Missouri, Hickok killed Davis Tutt, Jr. in a "quick draw" duel. Hickok did not make a continuous patrol of the streets, as did his predecessor Tom Smith, but instead did it only a couple of times a day. No one was allowed to get too near. His parents were William Alonzo Hickok and Polly Butler. I will be." Pard, we will meet again in the happy hunting ground to part no more. Utter.". The wagon train arrived in Deadwood in July 1876. Not exactly the image some "historians" have given us concerning this fearsome gunfighter, but true none the less. The men, women, and children of his own time echoed the words of that old woman of Abilene, "He was a grand man, Marshal Hickok, a grand man". Reddish shades in hair appeared black in early wet and dry plate photography. Many years later Mrs. Zoe Tilghman submitted a copy, of some of her husbands notes concerning this meeting. Inevitably nicknamed" Wild Bill" for the folk hero of the American Old West, and also known as "Hickey," he starred at Yale University in track as well as football and was eventually inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. "[56], Martha Jane Cannary, known popularly as Calamity Jane, claimed in her autobiography that she was married to Hickok and had divorced him so he could be free to marry Agnes Lake, but no records that support her account have been found. The authorities did not consider this to be double jeopardy because at the time Deadwood was not recognized by the U.S. as a legitimately incorporated town, as it was in Indian Country and the jury was irregular. On July 21, 1865, the two men faced off in Springfield's town square, standing sideways before drawing and firing their weapons. It has been speculated that during the "missing year", Hickok may have been operating as a spy in Southern territory. On August 2, 1876, while playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. It's fitting that Wild Bill Hickok's gun would finally end up in the Adams Museum in Deadwood, South Dakota, the town where he was shot in the back of the head during a card game. Hickok had to shoot another man, in performance of his duties, named Mulvey who was another town troublemaker. In March or early April of 1871 the city of Abilene Kansas offered him a job as city Marshal. [7] Photographs of Hickok appear to depict dark hair, but all contemporaneous descriptions affirm that it was red. This is considered one of the most . ", Rosa, Joseph G. (1977). Also, Hickok had only recently married, and by all accounts he was completely taken by his wife. He took a job in Utica Illinois, working as a wagon driver on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. In 1876 in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, Hickok married Agnes Lake Thatcher, a former circus performer. Wild Bill Hickok, byname of James Butler Hickok, (born May 27, 1837, Homer [now Troy Grove], Illinois, U.S.died August 2, 1876, Deadwood, Dakota Territory [now in South Dakota, U.S.]), American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. In reality, they barely knew one another, having met only about a month before his death. Buffalo Bill also earned the respect of the great Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and was an early advocate of equal pay for women. AllisonYsamo7744. She is the daughter of William T. Saunders of Augusta, Illinois, and sister to Minnie Rohrbaugh of Chicago and W. A. Saunders of Parker, Kansas. Hickok was relieved of his duties as marshal less than two months after having accidentally killed deputy Mike Williams, allegedly owing to this incident's being only one of a series of questionable shootings and claims of misconduct. At the coroner's inquest into Strawhun's death, despite "very contradictory" evidence from witnesses, the jury found the shooting justifiable. He wanted me to go with him, and as we started on our way, imagine my surprise and uncomfortable feeling when he announced his intention of stopping at the McCanles home. He seemed to have respect for Hickok's abilities and replied, "If Bill needs killing, why don't you kill him yourself? 10 in Deadwood (then part of the Dakota Territory but on Indian land), Hickok could not find an empty seat in the corner, where he always sat in order to protect himself against sneak attacks from behind, and instead sat with his back to the door. Brink, were tried but judged to have acted in self-defense. This time with the group of actors recruited by the famous Buffalo Bill. Charlie Utter, Hickok's friend and companion, claimed Hickok's body and placed a notice in the local newspaper, the Black Hills Pioneer, which read: Present day gravesite"Died in Deadwood, Black Hills, August 2, 1876, from the effects of a pistol shot, J. James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was a legendary gunfighter and law man in the American Wild West. Of all the weapons listed, Hickok's clear favorite was indeed the Colt Navy. After shooting Coe, Hickok caught a glimpse of someone running toward him and quickly fired two more shots in reaction, accidentally shooting and killing Abilene Special Deputy Marshal Mike Williams, who was coming to his aid. All had been hardened by five years of terrible bloodshed in the War. Mulvey angrily declared that he had come to town to kill Hickok. The second trial was not considered double jeopardy because of the irregular jury in the first trial and because Deadwood was at the time in unorganized Indian country. The town of Deadwood, South Dakota, re-enacts Hickok's murder and McCall's capture every summer evening. Wild west legend (1837-1876) Who's Who in American History. [c] However, if they felt the threat of danger was real and imminent, he instructed they could apply the unwritten law of the "fair fight" and acquit. The bullet emerged through his right cheek and struck another player, riverboat Captain William Massie, in the left wrist. Wild Bill Hickok, byname of James Butler Hickok, (born May 27, 1837, Homer [now Troy Grove], Illinois, U.S.died August 2, 1876, Deadwood, Dakota Territory [now in South Dakota, U.S.]), American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. During this period of time an incident occurred that, it is claimed resulted in the "Wild Bill" sobriquet. "[46] Hoping to intimidate Hickok, Coe allegedly stated that he could "kill a crow on the wing". [2] Martha Jane Cannary, known popularly as Calamity Jane, claimed in her autobiography that she was married to Hickok and had divorced him so that he could be free to marry Agnes Lake, but no records have been found that support Jane's account. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory. According to the Harpers account, Hickok, while guiding a detachment of Union cavalry through southern Nebraska, decided to stop and visit an old friend, Wellmans wife, at Rock Creek Station. 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