She said, "Oh, I tell you, I tell you, he was a grand man was Marshal Hickok, a grand man!" Among his legendary exploits, he reportedly killed a bear in hand-to-hand combat armed with only a bowie knife. Hickok remains a popular figure of frontier history. Dismounting, he approached the bear and fired a shot into its head, but the bullet ricocheted off its skull, infuriating it. Only station employees were allowed to testify at the trial (testimony by McCanless son was barred), and the verdict was that the men had acted in self-defense. At first, I thought that this could be the lineage, but realized that the spelling was incorrect. In 1857, Hickok claimed a 160-acre (65ha) tract in Johnson County, Kansas, near present-day Lenexa. The trial did not last more than fifteen minutes.[23]. The cards Hickok had been holding when he was shot and killeda pair of black aces and a pair of black eights plus an unknown fifth cardbecame known as the Dead Mans Hand.. Pard, we will meet again in the happy hunting ground to part no more. He twice asked another man at the table, Charles Rich, to change seats with him, but Rich refused. According to their account, the shootout took place not inside the Wellmans cabin but inside the Rock Creek station itself, and Hickoks defense was far from single-handed. 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. Hickok warned the armed and dangerous man to cease causing trouble. The most reasonable, and the one most often related is as follows. Hickok and Lanihan remained, respectively, sheriff and deputy as Hickok accused J.V. The two men did not like each other, and trouble between them was inevitable. Although buckskins are often seen in movies depicting earlier periods, Hickok was one of the first to wear them.On July 21, 1865, in the town square of Springfield, Missouri, Hickok killed Davis Tutt, Jr. in a "quick draw" duel. 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. Her father cried out "Children we're safe, it's Marshal Hickok they'll not harm us now!" awaiting execution. [1], In 1855, at the age of 18, Hickok moved to Kansas Territory following a fight with Charles Hudson, which resulted in both falling into a canal. Coe had been the business partner of known gunman Ben Thompson, with whom he co-owned the Bulls Head Saloon. That story is also thought to be an exaggeration. 3:52. . The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok was a 1950s TV series starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine. While Tutt was consoling Moore, Hickok struck up a relationship with Tutt's sister! In 1941, Jean Hickok McCormick appeared in Billings, Montana. That derisive nickname may have been given to him by David McCanles, who had sold the buildings that became the Pony Expresss Rock Creek station, on credit, to Russell, Majors and Waddell. Interestingly, most newspapers continued to use the name William Haycock when referring to "Wild Bill" until 1869 despite military records after 1865 using his correct name while acknowledging he was also known as Haycock. Bathrooms in the Wild West didn't feature proper baths and most weren't formal rooms. Hickok is currently interred in a ten-foot (3 m) square plot at the Mount Moriah Cemetery, surrounded by a cast-iron fence with a U.S. flag flying nearby. Mulvey angrily declared that he had come to town to kill Hickok. On August 2, 1876, Hickok was playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. There, the freight company had built a stagecoach stop along the Oregon Trail near Fairbury, Nebraska, on land purchased from David McCanles. Geni requires JavaScript! [21][22] Hickok, Wellman, and another employee, J.W. 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. Second, they never had a captain named "O'Neil" in the list of their ships captains! Infuriated, Thompson tried to incite John Wesley Hardin to kill Hickok by exclaiming to Hardin that "He's a damn Yankee. Leaving Springfield, he was recommended for the position of deputy federal marshal at Fort Riley, Kansas. She said he had boasted of his going to "clean up on the people at the station". [46]:pp.5456[47], In August 1871, Hickok sought to arrest Hardin for killing Charles Couger in an Abilene hotel "for snoring too loud". "Wild Bill" Hickok, one of the greatest gunfighters of the American West, is murdered in Deadwood, South Dakota. American folk hero and lawman (18371876), For the American football player and industrialist, see, Arapaho Joe and Colorado Charlie Utter at Hickok's grave, photograph date unknown, Pistols known to have been carried by Hickok. McCall may have been paid for the deed, or it may have been the result of a recent dispute between the two. 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. Finally, her "friends" decided to also change the date of her death. He developed habits, of personal safety, to protect himself. In March or early April of 1871 the city of Abilene Kansas offered him a job as city Marshal. 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. It was apparent that his marksmanship and health had been suffering for some time, as he had been arrested several times for vagrancy, despite earning a good income from gambling and displays of showmanship only a few years earlier. Present-day gravesite Utter supervised the move and noted that while perfectly preserved, Hickok had been imperfectly embalmed. Abilene was a rough and rowdy cowtown, in those days. Bill Lake was shot to death in 1869, but Agnes continued with the traveling show. This cemetery filled quickly, and in 1879, on the third anniversary of Hickok's original burial, Utter paid to move Hickok's remains to the new Mount Moriah Cemetery. At this time a regiment was being formed. It won the Best Song Oscar for "Secret Love", by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster . His motive was never really known, but some folks thought the criminal element in Deadwood feared the famous lawman and decided to eliminate him. McCall was found guilty and sentenced to death. Am. In 1954 an episode of Gunsmoke on CBS radio featured John Dehner as Hickok. He is described as wearing a broad brimmed hat, a pair of ivory handled revolvers at his waist, wearing a long drooping mustache, and having long flowing hair that fell to his shoulders. Eventually, Hickok tired of all the show business stuff and left for the West he so loved. Hickok left Springfield and opened a new chapter in his life. (ILFEBRUARY, BILL. Hickok was on a winning streak and Tutt, frustrated, requested that he repay a $40 loan, which Hickok did. Hickok told Williams to stay where he was, and then took off in the direction of the gunshot. 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?" Hickok, whose eyesight was poor by that time in his life due to the early stages of glaucoma, caught the glimpse of movement of someone running toward him. Hickok accused a J.V. 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. He kicked in doors of all the saloons, ordered everyone out, and shut them down. In 1867, his fame increased after a published interview by Henry Morton Stanley. "[3] In 1861, after growing a mustache following the McCanles incident, he began calling himself Wild Bill. 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). [25][26]:136 Hickok had not been paid for some time, and was hired as a scout by General John B. Sanborn by early 1865. From early on, he loved guns-practicing target shooting on squirrels, rabbits and other small animals. It is ridiculous at face value. Hickoks growing reputation for fairness and courage earned him, in 1858, a position as a constable in Monticello, Kansas. Hickok gave a newspaper interview where the world learned about "Wild Bill" Hickok. Several official documents, still in existence, show Hickok being paid for services rendered to the Provost Marshal's office. 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." Just as he pulled the trigger one of the policemen rushed around the corner between Coe and the pistols and both balls entered his body, killing him instantly. Please select which sections you would like to print: Joseph J. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized. Western Figure. That man was Wild Bill Hickok. When the Civil War began in 1861, Hickok joined the fray as a Union soldier and spy, even fighting in the Battle of Wilson's Creek. You can read his bio at http://www.wikipedia.org. In June 1865, Hickok was mustered out and spent his time in and around Springfield gambling. The old cemetery was in an area that was better suited for the constant influx of new settlers to live on, so the remaining bodies there were eventually also moved up the hill to the Mount Moriah Cemetery (in the 1880s). In 1869 Hickok became sheriff of Hays City, Kansas, where he killed several men in shootouts. James Butler Hickok, a.k.a. Whatever the truth was it died with Jack McCall on the gallows. Nowadays, though, his place of birth is called Troy Grove. It is recorded that before "Buffalo Bill" developed his "Wild West show, others had attempted similar productions. At the conclusion of the incident a woman's voice was heard to shout, "good for you Wild Bill"! [40]:196, In September 1869, his first month as sheriff, Hickok killed two men. Jack McCall walked to within a few feet of Wild Bill and then suddenly drew a pistol and shouted, Take that! before firing. The told them that the June ordinance concerning firearms was still in effect, and that they should give up their guns and leave town. Hickok waved his hand past Mulvey at some onlookers and yelled, "Don't shoot him in the back; he is drunk." This was claimed after he was killed during a poker game on Aug. 2, 1876. In doing the preliminary genealogy work, I realized that my Great-great Grandfather James William DeMoss married a woman named Amanda Hecox. Hickok was bedridden for months before he went to southern Nebraska in the summer of 1861 to work at the Pony Express station at Rock Creek. As the rider approached, she recognized the lone rider. It should not be quoted or retransmitted without a full citation to the author and website address, and should not be put into print without the author's express permission. It is difficult to separate the truth from fiction about Hickok, the first "dime novel" hero of the western era, in many ways one of the first comic book heroes, keeping company with another who achieved part of his fame in such a way, frontiersman Davey Crockett. One was known as the "Missouri Border Ruffians" who were pro-slavery, and the "Kansas Free Staters" anti-slavery. [2] According to Joseph G. Rosa, a Hickok biographer, the shot that felled the elder McCanles came from inside the house, a tale Wild Bill's friends invented to keep the "heat" of both the law and McCanles' extended family off Wild Bill (extended generational member). 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. Normally, as a cowherd approached Abilene, riders from town were sent out to warn the local farms. Most likely McCall became enraged over what he perceived as a condescending offer from Hickok to let him have enough money for breakfast after he had lost all his money playing poker the previous day. On the contrary, he was applauded. Horace Hickok was born in October of 1834. I would have rather been somewhere else, but Bill stopped. The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank John Richard for contributing the following article about James Butler Hickok. I will be. On Sept. 6, 1941 the U.S. Dept. There is also a confrontation, between Hickok and five cavalry troopers, that is somewhat in dispute as to the exact facts of the event. On March 5, 1876, Hickok married Agnes Thatcher Lake, a 50-year-old circus proprietor in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. By 1862 he was made the "chief wagon master" in his unit. His exploits as a gunfighter, scout, and lawman were legendary and he became the topic of many fictionalized accounts. Agnes Lake and James Butler Hickok were finally married on March 5th, 1876. 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.". One day, after hearing that a cowherd was approaching, she remember how fearful she and her family became. Many characters in Western novels are fashioned after Hickok. It is reported that he joined the "army" of General Jim Lane, one of the Kansas Free Staters, eventually becoming the personal bodyguard of General Lane. The regiment was none other than the famous "7th" Cavalry, led by the equally famous Lt. He is now at Yankton, D.T. And finally, Hardin never made such a statement while Hickok was alive. She would later claim they had a romantic relationship, and to have been one of Hickok's closest friends. Wild Bill Hickok was born James Butler Hickok in Homer, Illinois on May 27, 1837. ", Rosa, Joseph G. (1982). Fiction would later show this kind of gunfight as typical, but Hickok's is in fact the only one on record that fits the portrayal. 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. The wagon train arrived in Deadwood in July 1876. Prairie Schooners is a 1940 American Western film directed by Sam Nelson, which stars Wild Bill Elliott as Hickok. [11], Hickok first met former Confederate Army soldier Davis Tutt in early 1865, while both were gambling in Springfield, Missouri. He usually kept his back to walls, and avoided open doorways and windows. Marshal and, apparently, no longer working with the Army. The episode correctly relates Hickok's vision problems late in his life, and also includes his murderer, Jack McCall, in a highly fictionalized role. The game was interrupted by Hickok getting shot. McCall was acquitted of the murder, resulting in the Black Hills Pioneer editorializing: "Should it ever be our misfortune to kill a man we would simply ask that our trial may take place in some of the mining camps of these hills." He first instructed the jury that a conviction was its only option under the law. While they were in this town, Hickok is said to have taken a friend's daughter bullfrog hunting! Who Was Buffalo Bill Cody? She died on August 3, 1655 in Farmington. [23] After Strawhun made remarks against Hickok, Strawhun died instantly from a bullet through the head as Hickok tried to restore order. McCall lost heavily. Calamity Jane is reputed to have led a mob that threatened McCall with lynching, but at the time of Hickok's death, Jane was actually being held by military authorities. After his execution it was determined that McCall had never had a brother. 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. During this period of time an incident occurred that, it is claimed resulted in the "Wild Bill" sobriquet. The graveyard filled quickly and was in an area that could be better used for the constant influx of settlers to live on, so all the bodies there were moved up the hill to the Mount Moriah Cemetery in the 1880s. The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series that ran for eight seasons from April 15, 1951, through September 24, 1958. Hickok joined the antislavery Free State Army of Jayhawkers and, having already become skilled with a gun as a youth, served as a bodyguard for Gen. James H. Lanes. The couple had five children besides James Butler, three boys and two girls. Marjorie "Betty Crocker" Child, "Wild Bill" Hickok, John Bartlett, Johnny Carson, George Mortimer . Due to his "sweeping nose and protruding upper lip," Hickok was nicknamed "Duck Bill." On Nov. 18 Bonhams Auctioneers will sell a Smith & Wesson Model No.2 pistol Wild Bill Hickok may have been carrying on Aug. 2, 1876, when he was murdered at a poker table in Deadwood, SD. In July, Hickok told a newspaper reporter that he had led several soldiers in pursuit of Indians who had killed four men near the fort on July 2. In 1861, because of a "sweeping nose and protruding upper lip" Hickok received the nickname . [5] William Hickok died in 1852, when James was 15. 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. Of course, this information never got the circulation the false claim had received. The fifth card is debated, or, as some say, had not yet been dealt. Di Certo is the author of ten books and composer of three albums of children's songs. While acting in this capacity Sherman's command stopped in a small Kansas town. [h], McCall's motive for killing Hickok is the subject of speculation, largely concerning McCall's anger at Hickok's having given him money for breakfast the day before, after McCall had lost heavily. On 9 December, Hickok and Lanihan both served legal papers on Macintosh and local newspapers acknowledged that Hickok had guardianship of Hays City. I will be." The result of that attack is that one, possibly two, of the troopers were killed by Hickok. [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. ", "Wild Bill, J. According to Hardin, Hickok taken by surprise at the maneuver, offered to compromise the situation over a drink in the saloon. The murderer escaped. [25][26] He later failed to win reelection. When a seat opened up at the table, a drunk man named Jack McCall sat down to play. Knowing they could not escape, the family awaited their fate. FOX Business 'Legends & Lies' recounts the life of American old west James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok, an unruly lawman and gunslinger.#FoxBusiness #FoxSubscr. It was during the planning and organization stages of the trip that Hickok first met Calamity Jane. In one show, he shot the spotlight when it focused on him. The cemetery was moved in 1881, and when McCall's body was exhumed, the noose was found still around his neck.[69]. When shot, he was holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights, all black. The 10th Regiment arrived at Fort Lyon in Colorado in October and remained there for the rest of 1868. Hickok chased and wounded the fleeing Gordon, who was then fatally shot by someone else (according to some by Doc Brinks, another Pony Express employee). When James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was born on 27 May 1837, in Troy Grove, LaSalle, Illinois, United States, his father, William Alonzo Hickok, was 35 and his mother, Pamelia "Polly" Butler, was 32. Deadwood recently authorized gambling, Las Vegas style, and might, in time, be once again the wild and wooly town of Hickok's day. 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. The legendary lawman now became flesh and blood. . Hickok and his accomplices, the station manager Horace Wellman, his wife, and an employee, J.W. Hickok interrupted him and then proceeded to tell the entire mob what he thought of them, and it wasn't complimentary. One of the workers, Joseph McLintock, wrote a detailed description of the reinterment. A second son, named Lorenzo Butler Hickok, was born in October of 1831 but died soon thereafter. This gave all the advantage to the buffalo. Hickoks family emigrated from England in 1635 to Massachusetts, where his great-grandfather responded to the British march on Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the American Revolution. In 1867, Hickok took a break from the west and moved to Niagara Falls, where he tried his hand at acting in a stage play called "The Daring Buffalo Chases of the Plains. He was constantly aware of the hatred felt towards him by the Texans, many of whom had sworn to "get" him. Author of ten books and composer of three albums of children 's songs and shut down. 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