HICKOK, WILD BILL

1837–76, American frontier marshal, b. Troy Grove, near Ottawa, Ill. His real name was James Butler Hickok. He took part in the Kansas struggle preceeding the Civil War, was a driver of the Butterfield stage line, and gained fame as a gunfighter. He served as a Union scout in the Civil War. After the war he became deputy U.S. marshal at Fort Riley (1866), marshal of Hays, Kans. (1869), and marshal of Abilene (1871). His reputation as a marksman in desperate encounters with outlaws made him a figure of frontier legend. After a tour of the East with Buffalo Bill (1872–73), Hickok went to Deadwood (now in S.Dak.) where he was murdered by Jack McCall.

See biographies by R. O'Connor (1959) and J. G. Rosa (1964).

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books on: Hickok Wild Bill  - 214 results

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Buckskins, Bullets, and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Book by Sarah J. Blackstone; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Buffalo Bill--1846-1917, Entertainers--United States--Biography
...Ponies and Mexican Thoroughbreds," 58 Hammitt, Frank, 86 Hamid, George, 79 Hawaiian performers, 71 Hickok, Emma, 67 , 80 Hickok, Wild Bill, 8 , 12 Hidalgo, clown , 54 "High Jumping Contest," 63 , 114 High School Horses, 67 , 80 , 84 The...
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Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man behind the Legend
Book by Robert A. Carter; Wiley, 2000
Subjects: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--History, Buffalo Bill--1846-1917, Entertainers--United States--Biography, Frontier And Pioneer Life--West (U.S.), Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography, Scouts And Scouting--West (U.S.)--Biography, West (U.S.)--Biography
...around front and shoot Bill in the face like a man...and in civil life, but Wild Bill was the prettiest corpse...looked like marble. Wild Bills Sharps rifle was buried...an assassin, J.B. Hickok, (Wild Bill) age 39 years; murdered...
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Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883- 1933
Book by L. G. Moses; University of New Mexico Press, 1996
Subjects: Dakota Indians--Public Opinion, Ethnic Attitudes--United States, Indians In Popular Culture--United States, Indians, Treatment Of--United States, Public Opinion--United States, Stereotype (Psychology)--United States, United States--Ethnic Relations, Wild West Shows--History
...Blanket, 122 Hertzberg, Hazel, 118 Hickok, Wild Bill, 18 High Chief, 180 High Eagle...toward Show Indians, 7 critical of Wild West shows, 6 Holy Bird, 122 Holy...101 "Hundred and One" Ranch Real Wild West, 173 , 178 European tour...
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Buffalo Bill: Last of the Great Scouts
Book by Helen Cody Wetmore, Zane Grey; University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Subjects: Buffalo Bill--1846-1917, Entertainers--United States--Biography, Frontier And Pioneer Life--West (U.S.), Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography, West (U.S.)--Biography
...him into a story about Wild Bill Hickok. First serialized in...issued as a book, Buffalo Bill, the King of Border Men...entertainment that became Buffalo Bills Wild West in 1883 brought...celebrity as well. As Buffalo Bill became famous as an entertainer...
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The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody, 1879-1917
Book by Sarah J. Blackstone; Praeger Publishers, 1988
Subjects: Buffalo Bill--1846-1917--Correspondence, Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Correspondence
...trains. He made several cross- country trips in this capacity, including a trip to Colorado where he first met Wild Bill Hickok. When the company of Russell, Majors, and Waddell founded the Pony Express, Cody signed on as a rider and served...
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journal articles on: Hickok Wild Bill  - 24 results

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Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
Journal article by Matthew Wittmann; The Historian, Vol. 73, 2011
Subjects: Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend (Biography)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...the story of Agnes Lake Hickok, a popular performer...prospered until 1869 when Bill Lake was shot and killed...business, she wed James "Wild Bill" Hickok, but the marriage was...her brief marriage to Hickok seems ancillary to establishing...
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Illusions of Grandeur: Altman, Kopit, and the Legends of the Wild West
Journal article by Carol W. Billman; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 6, 1978
Subjects: Congressional committees, Motion pictures, Musical performances
...off at Buffalo Bills Wild West Show while...fact that Buffalo Bill and The Indians...more. As Buffalo Bill asks while gazing...expanded Kopits Wild West Show to include...nature of Buffalo Bills Wild West-he...Indians demise. Bill comes to be haunted...trees; he tells Wild Bill Hickok, "Im scared...
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Pinacate Campmates
Journal article by Bill Hoy, Bill Broyles; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 49, 2007
Subjects: El Pinacate Biosphere Reserve, Mexico--Description and travel, Travelers--Evaluation, Voyages and travels--Personalities
Pinacate Campmates. by Bill Hoy , Bill Broyles As in great fiction and film...and Cantell 1927; McGinnies 1981; Wilder 1967. (8.) Barrel cactus. Utilizing...1971, King 1991, Lumholtz 1921. BILL Hot served the National Park Service...
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Two Resource Materials. for Teaching About the Old West
Journal article by Donna A. Beardsley; Social Studies, Vol. 85, 1994
Subjects: History--Study And Teaching, Social Sciences--Study And Teaching
...Monthly Magazine was "Wild Bill" by George Ward Nichols...of 1865, James Butler Hickok became a national figure...the years to follow, the Hickok legend grew. Many of the...a leading authority on Hickok. The end of this century...
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The Redcoat and the Ranger: Screening Bilateral Friendship in Cecil B. DeMille's North West Mounted Police (1940)
Journal article by Dominique Bregent-Heald; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 38, 2008
Subjects: Bilateralism--Criticism and interpretation, De Mille, Cecil B.--Works, Filmmakers--Works, Movie directors--Works, North West Mounted Police (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation
...1937), a film venerating the mythical exploits of Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Calamity Jane in the years after the Civil...Buccaneer (1938), Union Pacific (1939), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), and Unconquered (1947) glorified...
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magazine articles on: Hickok Wild Bill  - 29 results

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Buffalo Bill: The American West Incarnate
Magazine article by Gerald F. Kreyche; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 131, July 2002
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers--Behavior, Adventure--Behavior, Adventurers--Behavior, Buffalo Bill--Behavior, Western States--Portrayals
...in hiring Buffalo Bill as Chief of Scouts...so many of Buffalo Bills exploits, this one...version is that Buffalo Bill spotted a fine horse...literally, including Wild Bill Hickok, his longtime acquaintance...10 years. Buffalo Bills "acting" may be...
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Irma, My Irma
Magazine article by Bill Croke; The American Spectator, Vol. 32, May 1999
Subjects: Cody, William F (Buffalo Bill) (1846-1917), History, Hotels & motels, Irma Hotel-Cody WY, Public figures
Irma, My Irma by Bill Croke Like the Wild West Show and everything...billed as "Buffalo Bills Hotel in the Rockies...The small suite was Bill Codys whenever he was...it off famously at the Wild West Shows command performance...he says. "Bill Hickok either had a mirror in...
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Switching Hats to Film "the Legend of the Lone Ranger"
Magazine article; American Cinematographer, Vol. 62, July 1981
...in his honor." In the interview that follows, Bill Fraker talks about the various facets of his experience...it helped to make everything work. We brought in Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Gen. George Ouster and Gen. U.S. Grant...
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Revenge in Kansas, 1863
Magazine article by Donald Gilmore; History Today, Vol. 43, March 1993
Subjects: Guerrilla warfare--History, Lawrence, Kansas--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...Notable among these men were James Butler |Wild Bill Hickok and William Frederick |Buffalo Bill Cody - both of whom have suffered little reproval...Gestapo-like organisation. Both Cody and Hickok were Red Legs and later, or contemoraneously...
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The Real American Cowboy: The Real Men and Women of the Old West Were Truly as Legendary as Classic Hollywood Cinema and Traditional Western Fiction Have Led Us to Believe
Magazine article by R. Cort Kirkwood; The New American, Vol. 22, February 20, 2006
Subjects: Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, The Malt Who Shot Liberty Vallance (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...One example is James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok--plainsman, scout, and marshal...saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. Hickok served in the Union Army during...demanded payment of a previous debt. Hickok disputed the amount he owed, and...
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newspaper articles on: Hickok Wild Bill  - 75 results

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Thoughts Turn to Romance and Very Wild Calamity
Newspaper article; Coffs Coast Advocate (Coffs Harbour, Australia), August 13, 2011
Subjects: Burk, Martha Jane, Wild Bill Hickok
...Turn to Romance and Very Wild Calamity. Byline: David...former lawman Wild Bill Hickok and part-time hooker...Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok a who had once served...2, 1876, when Wild Bill a who drank with his...through the head. Wild Bills two black aces and two...killing was revenge for Hickok killing his brother...
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Showbiz Sam; the Man in the Know
Newspaper article by Showbiz Sam; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 9, 1997
Subjects: Hickok, James Butler
...most films made about him - Buffalo Bill or Wild Bill Hickok? - Jack Roberts, Perth. BUFFALO...Frederick Cody, 1846-1917) leads Wild Bill (1837- 76) by 53 to 37...John Dallas, Cumbernauld. IT was Wild Harvest (1941), depicting a romantic...
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DNA Debunks Gunman's Myth
Newspaper article by Robert Treadway; The Washington Times, June 14, 2001
Subjects: Hickok, James Butler
...The century-old legend of western outlaw William "Wild Bill" Preston Longley became a little less mysterious Wednesday...a woman - making him more deadly than Jesse James or Wild Bill Hickok. After 15 years of investigation, a crew of 10 scientists...
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Buckskin Bill, a Dead Man's Hand and Stuart's Stranglers ...the Scots Who Made the Wild, Wild West
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 29, 2011
Buckskin Bill, a Dead Mans Hand and...the Scots Who Made the Wild, Wild West. Byline...murderous gang was Buckskin Bill McFadden, and his two...James Butler Wild Bill Hickok - and aces and eights...argued that he had shot Hickok in revenge for the killing...was regarded as the wildest of the Wild Bunch. A...
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I Came for My Paw; Hollywood Star Jeff Bridges on How His Dad Inspired Him to Sign on for Wild West Epic
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), January 16, 2011
Subjects: Bridges, Jeff, Bridges, Lloyd
...Bridges on How His Dad Inspired Him to Sign on for Wild West Epic. Byline: JOHN MILLAR JEFF BRIDGES wont...Wild West movies. He starred as gunfighter and scout Wild Bill Hickok in Wild Bill and his other Western adventures include Bad Company...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hickok Wild Bill  - 5 results

 
 
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Hickok, Wild Bill
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HICKOK, WILD BILL 1837 76, American frontier marshal...Ill. His real name was James Butler Hickok. He took part in the Kansas struggle...the East with Buffalo Bill (1872 73), Hickok went to Deadwood (now in S.Dak...
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Abilene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...SW into Texas. Millions of cattle followed the Chisholm Trail into the cow towns stockyards prior to shipment. "Wild Bill" Hickok was Abilenes marshal for a time. The city, a still shipping point for a wheat and cattle region, has feed and...
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Deadwood
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Its history is commemorated in the Adams Memorial Museum and an annual "Days of 76" celebration. The graves of Wild Bill Hickok (shot in a saloon here during a card game) and Calamity Jane are in Deadwoods "Boot Hill." Gambling casinos...
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South Dakota
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the cities in increasing numbers. During the 1870s the gold fever mounted; Deadwood had its day of gaudy glory, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane created frontier legends, and the town of Lead began its long, productive history. The Dakota...
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Springfield
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Confederate forces after the battle (1861) of Wilsons Creek; nearby are the battlefield and a national cemetery. "Wild Bill" Hickok lived in the city. 4 City (1990 pop. 70,487), seat of Clark co., W central Ohio, on the Mad River; settled...


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