Wild bill hickok

Wild Bill Hickok & the Deadman's Hand - James Butler Hickok was a stage driver, military scout, lawman and gunfighter. He was shot dead while playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota.

The arrival of the daguerreotype in the 1840s could not have come at a more fortuitous time for

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. In actuality, this kind of thing very rarely occurred, and the true life Western stories—like Wild Bill Hickok being shot in the back while playing cards—tell a much more gruesome and less gallant tale. Still, there’s no denying that among the bandits and lawmen of the day there were a number of larger-than-life gunfighters…

If you have ever been to Troy Grove, Illinois, you more than likely would not have known it. It is a “blink and miss it” kind of town. It is nestled in the flat plains of northern Illin…

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Although he was a legend during his own lifetime, not many people are aware of Wild Bill Hickok, a gunslinging Sheriff that ruled the Wild West with an...