Hickok refused to play cards with Tutt, who retaliated by financing other players in an attempt to bankrupt him. in an instant, he pulled the triggers again sending two bullets into Coe's abdomen (Coe lived a day or two) and whirling with his two guns drawn on the drunken crowd of cowboys, "and now do any of you fellows want the rest of these bullets." With his already evident skill in shooting , James brought in local game to add to the family larder. Jane had died on the 1st of August 1903, but they changed it to August 2nd 1903 to correspond to the anniversary of Hickok's death. Hickok more than proved that title during that night. Born in Illinois in 1837, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok first gained . The rowdy cowboys and criminals of Abilene would soon learn, however, that Marshal Hickok was a very different person from Tom Smith. Hickok was somewhat undecided though, thinking Agnes would return to the East after her show closed and he greatly preferred the West. The election results of Monticello Kansas show Hickok being elected as "Constable", in 1858. He died in 1917 at the age of 70 in Denver, Colorado. He was also a notorious bully. He also took a job working for a neighbor with a last name of Carr. When a seat opened up at the table, a drunk man named Jack McCall sat down to play. McCall claimed at the resulting two-hour trial (by a motley group of assembled miners and businessmen) that he was avenging Hickok's earlier slaying of his brother. Utter.". The regiment was none other than the famous "7th" Cavalry, led by the equally famous Lt. The available facts, consisting of eyewitness accounts and some contemporary newspaper accounts, indicate that Coe shot at Hickok. However, spelling is a very fluid thing in past generations. Ellis county elections were held on 2 November 1869, and Hickok (Independent) lost to his deputy Peter Lanihan (Democrat). I will be. Before his legendary status, Wild Bill was born in 1837 in the state of Illinois as James Butler Hickok. James Butler Hickbetter known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. Tutt called out, "Boys, I'm killed", before he collapsed and died. Good bye, Colorado Charlie, C. H. Hickok's retort is one of the West's most famous sayings (though possibly apocryphal): "Did the crow have a pistol? When I was a young boy, I heard that we were distantly related to Wild Bill through my mother's side. 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. He fought in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, and professional gambler. When he got to the place where Coe and his friends were he demanded to know who fired the shot. Calamity Jane is a 1953 musical-Western film from Warner Bros. starring Doris Day and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. Tutt ignored the warning and at the indicated time began to walk into the town square, towards Hickok who was on the opposite side of the square. The first was Bill Mulvey, who was rampaging through town, drunk, shooting out mirrors and whisky bottles behind bars. Hickok had put two bullets into Coe's abdomen,but seeing someone else running into the gunfight, with a drawn gun, Hickok fired again not recognizing his friend. On August 2, 1876, Hickok was playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. He developed habits, of personal safety, to protect himself. On July 21, 1865, in the town square of Springfield, Missouri, Hickok killed Davis Tutt, Jr. in a "quick draw" duel. In 1859 he joined the Russell, Waddell, and Majors freight company called the Pony Express. He served for a time as a United States Marshal. The family did some moving around during this time period and the next child, James Butler Hickok, was born in May of 1837. Calamity Jane was reported to have been buried next to Hickok according to her dying wish. [19] According to Hickok's account, he found the road blocked by a cinnamon bear and its two cubs. Hickok was a favourite of Custer and his wife, Libbie, who described him as a delight to look upon. Hickoks physical appearance was by many accounts arresting. In the film version, Howard Keel co-stars as Hickok to Doris Day's Calamity Jane. [citation needed], Leander Richardson, a reporter, interviewed McCall shortly before his execution, and wrote an article about him for the April 1877 issue of Scribner's Monthly. He usually sat with his back to a wall so he could see the entrance, but the only seat available when he joined the game was a chair facing away from the door. Mulvey wheeled his horse around to face those who might shoot him from behind, and before he realized he had been fooled, Hickok shot him through the temple. He was bedridden for four months before being sent to Rock Creek Station in the Nebraska Territory to work as a stable hand while he recovered. Corrections? While Hickok claimed to have killed numerous named and unnamed gunmen in his lifetime, his career as a gunfighter only lasted from 1861 to 1871. Hickok and his accomplices, the station manager Horace Wellman, his wife, and an employee, J.W. Hickok hailed from Illinois and had traveled to Missouri and Kansas as a young man looking for adventure. 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: Died in Deadwood, Black Hills, August 2, 1876, from the effects of a pistol shot, J. After Wild Bill's death in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, in 1876, the letters . He earned a reputation as a skilled scout. Hickok's brother, Lorenzo Butler, traveled from Illinois to attend the retrial. Jingles described Hickok as "the bravest, strongest, fightingest U.S. Mulvey angrily declared that he had come to town to kill Hickok. The winter of 1870-71 passed peacefully for Hickok. This proved to be not a very practical method. James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok is arguably the best known Old West gunfighters and one of the West's most famous folk heroes both in his own day and today. Mr. Hickok was assassinated in Deadwood, South Dakota on August 2, 1876. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. When the Civil War began, Hickok joined the Union forces and served in the west, mostly in Kansas and Missouri. [82], At the time of this affair I was at a station farther west and reached this station just as Wild Bill was getting ready to go to Beatrice for his trial. Apparently, this was also the opinion of the local court, that looked into the matter, since no charges were brought against Hickok. Agnes Lake and James Butler Hickok were finally married on March 5th, 1876. Most famous for being the. "-"Phil" Coe was from Texas, ran the "Bulls Head" a saloon and gambling den, sold whiskey and mens souls. His nickname of Wild Bill has inspired similar nicknames for men known for their daring in various fields. [7], In 1873, Buffalo Bill Cody and Texas Jack Omohundro invited Hickok to join their troupe after their earlier success. All had been hardened by five years of terrible bloodshed in the War. Nonetheless, Hickok was reported by some to have appeared with Buffalo Bill in 1873 in a stage play titled "Scouts of the Plains". Infuriated, Thompson tried to incite John Wesley Hardin to kill Hickok by exclaiming to Hardin that "He's a damn Yankee. He was involved in a deadly shoot-out with the McCanles gang at Rock Creek Station, an event still under much debate. One day, while swimming with some friends in a stream that ran through the property, a local bully started picking on one of his friends. [6][7], In 1857, Hickok claimed a 160-acre (65 ha) tract in Johnson County, Kansas (in what is now Lenexa). Bill Lake was shot to death in 1869, but Agnes continued with the traveling show. In the summer of 1868, while pursuing a horse thief, Hickok rode into Atchison KS. This, too, was badly defaced, and was then enclosed in a cage for protection. t" it Springfield is nor Which i" it by 20t.T Illustration of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Harpers New Monthly Magazine February 1867 McCall was eventually tried and convicted of Hickok's murder, and was hanged. He was holding two pairs: black aces and black eights (although there is some dispute as to the suit of one of the aces, diamond vs. spade) as his "up cards", which has since become widely known as the "dead man's hand". Hickok pulled his pistol, and almost simultaneously both fired their pistols at each other. It involves a woman that, in life, had almost nothing whatever to do with him, except share the same area of the country for a brief time. Tutt left the saloon but returned to the square at 6 p.m., while Hickok arrived on the other side and warned him not to approach him while wearing the watch. James Butler Hickok, a.k.a. Bonhams . This particular regiment was destined to become immortal. Hickok warned him not to do that or there would be "trouble". One of the escaped slaves, identified as "Hannah", liked the Hickok family so much she stayed with them for many years. of Public Welfare did grant old age assistance to a Jean Hickok Burkhardt McCormick after receiving evidence that Calamity Jane and Wild Bill had married at Benson's Landing, Montana Territory, on September 25, 1873. On 4 September, Hickok was wounded in the foot while rescuing several cattlemen in the Bijou Creek Basin who were surrounded by Indians. In the early 1870's a man named John Hunton saw Calamity Jane and gives us a description of her,while on a visit to Fort Laramie in Wyoming. [6] Since the event was outdoors, he could not compel people to pay, and the venture was a financial failure. McCanles and his friends came to the station looking for trouble. When he did go on patrol he would walk down the center of the street, rarely using the sidewalks. She said he had boasted of his going to "clean up on the people at the station". But also he was a man of gentleness and tender caring for the weak and helpless. At the trial it was proved that the murderer was hired to do his work by gamblers[44] who feared the time when better citizens should appoint Bill the champion of law and order - a post which he formerly sustained in Kansas border life, with credit to his manhood and his courage. After the war, Hickok became a scout for the U. S. Army and later was a professional gambler. The wagon train arrived in Deadwood in July 1876. Although the true version of how, or when, Hickok acquired the sobriquet may never be known, it is known that in this area of the country, during this time period, James Butler Hickok began being known as "Wild Bill Hickok"! [39] Three sheriffs had quit during the previous 18 months. McCall was tried and acquitted of murder as a result of his dubious claim that the killing was in revenge for Hickoks murder of his brother in Abilene. Hickok lost his re-election bid to his deputy. William Austin, the cemetery caretaker, estimated 500lb (230kg). Was he a killer of men? Wild Bill is also alleged to have carried a pair of .41-caliber Williamson dual-ignition derringers as "hideout" weapons, but there's no evidence he ever used a derringer in a gunfight. The gun did not sell because the highest bid of $220,000 was less than the reserve set by the gun's owners.[76]. These were silver-plated with ivory handles, and were engraved: "J.B. Hickock-1869". The result of that attack is that one, possibly two, of the troopers were killed by Hickok. In truth, he seems to have been afflicted with trachoma, a common vision disorder of the time. And, that he hadn't "gambled" in two years! For confirmation that Hickok was employed as a U.S. Army scout fighting Indians in Kansas in the summer of 1867, see Ames, George Augustus, Russell, Majors and Waddell freight company, List of cultural depictions of Wild Bill Hickok, "How many men did Wild Bill Hickok actually kill? [57] The two possibly met for the first time after Jane was released from the guardhouse in Fort Laramie and joined the wagon train in which Hickok was traveling. McCanles reportedly threatened Wellman, and either Wellman or Hickok, who was hiding behind a curtain, killed McCanles. A later film (1953) and subsequent stage musical, both titled Calamity Jane, also portray a romance between Calamity Jane and Hickok. The hand Hickok had held, a pair of Aces and a pair of Eights, thereafter became known as "The Dead Man's Hand.". Some were ex-Union soldiers, some were ex-Confederate. Gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) travels the frontier, gaining fame and enemies in roughly equal measure. That story is also thought to be an exaggeration. Hickok was originally buried in the Ingelside Cemetery, Deadwood's original graveyard. M Child 5: James Butler HICKOK also known as: Wild Bill Hickok died at age: 39 Born: 27-May-1837 in Homer (Troy Grove), La SalleCo, IL Died: 2-Aug-1876 in Deadwood, Dakota Territory Buried: 4 Aug 1876 in Mt. This caused Hickok, the greatest gunfighter in the West, to be unceremoniously dumped face first into the dirt, and to see his horse being dragged away by the buffalo. Was he shooting back? When shot, he was holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights, all black. He twice asked another man at the table, Charles Rich, to change seats with him, but Rich refused. According to the premier biographer of Hickok, Mr. Joseph G. Rosa, some odd things then began to happen. [31], Several weeks later, an interview Hickok gave to Colonel George Ward Nichols, a journalist who subsequently became known as the creator of the Hickok legend,[32] was published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine. A highly fictional film account of Hickok's later years and death, titled Wild Bill (1995), stars Jeff Bridges as Hickok and David Arquette as Jack McCall, and was written and directed by Walter Hill. The problem with this recollection" of Hardin's is that there is absolutely no evidence it ever happened. By 1856 James was in Kansas territory with his brother Lorenzo. Colonel George Armstrong Custer! On March 5, 1876, Hickok married Agnes Thatcher Lake, a 50-year-old circus proprietor in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. As the scene unfolded, McCanles entered the station, and, from behind the curtain that divided it in two, either Hickok or Wellman shot McCanles. When they reached the "Alamo" saloon Coe drew his pistol and fired it. He was constantly aware of the hatred felt towards him by the Texans, many of whom had sworn to "get" him. [34]:34 The show featured six buffalo, a bear, and a monkey, and one show ended in disaster when a buffalo refused to act, prompting Hickok to fire a bullet into the sky. 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. James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok was a legendary gunfighter and law man in the American Wild West. Hickok waved his hand past Mulvey at some onlookers and yelled, "Don't shoot him in the back; he is drunk." [5] William Hickok died in 1852, when James was 15. He replaced Tom "Bear River" Smith, who had been killed while serving an arrest warrant on November 2, 1870. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory. That night financial failure Hickok warned him not to do that or there would be `` trouble '' Day calamity. 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