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After more than 22 years of research and writing, Craig Crease is looking forward to debunking popular myths about frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok, including one based in Springfield. On June 3 ...
His supremacy as a shootist is evident early in “Wild Bill,” Tom Clavin’s new biography of the gunslinger. Hickok not only survives all of his walk-and-draw contests, he becomes a bona fide ...
If You Go What: Brown Bag Lunch program featuring Wild Bill Hickok chautauqua by Dave Wood. When: Noon today, Dec. 8, 2015; held the second Tuesday each month. Where: Community Room at Fort Morgan ...
Aside from Tutt being with Hickok’s girlfriend and Wild Bill returning the favor by dating Tutt’s sister, a gambling debt needed to be settled. Some dime-store novels say Wild Bill owed Tutt, $25.
Niagara Falls is where Wild Bill Hickok dared to be an actor, a showman, and realized it was not for him. But he tried…and was trying on his financiers as well. Wild Bill Hickok met Henry M ...
Wild Bill Hickok was a figure in Shawnee history in the 1850s. The artwork, which was installed on Shawnee Mission Parkway and Nieman Road, depicts Hickok astride his legendary horse, Black Nell.
It took him 15 months to write the biography in full. Who was 'Wild Bill' Hickok? Hickok was born May 27, 1837 in Troy Grove, Illinois and grew up in a sophisticated, well-educated family.
After more than 22 years of research and writing, Craig Crease is looking forward to debunking popular myths about frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok, including one based in Springfield.