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James Butler Hickok May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876 His contemporaries Hickok stood over 6 feet tall, had shoulder called him Wild Bill, length light brown hair and gray eyes. Libbie and the newspaper Custer describes him in her 1890 book, and others made him a Following the Guidon, legend in his own time. He “Physically he was a delight to look upon. was written about by Tall, lithe, and free in every motion, he rode General George and walked as if every muscle was perfection, Armstrong Custer and and the careless swing of his body as he “Buffalo Bill” Cody. moved seemed perfectly in keeping with the But what are the man, the country, the time in which he lived. facts behind the I do not recall anything finer in the way of legend? James physical perfection than Wild Bill when he Butler Hickok was swung himself lightly from his saddle, and born in 1837 in Troy with graceful, swaying step, squarely set Grove, Illinois and spent his formative years shoulders and well poised head...” helping out on the family farm. Most of his adult years were spent in the West, where his ild Bill was murdered in Deadwood exploits included employment as a W detective, scout for the US Army, and as the on August 2, 1876. Wild Bill’s friends Marshal of Abilene, Kansas. buried him in Deadwood’s first cemetery, but three years later he Part of the Hickok legend was built on his ability to handle a pistol with either hand, was reburied at the present site in becoming one of the first so-called “fast guns.” Mt.
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