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Wild Bill Hickok. Wild Bill Hickok eller Wild Bill, egentligen James Butler Hickok, född 27 maj 1837 i Troy Grove i LaSalle County, Illinois, död 2 augusti 1876 i Deadwood, South Dakota, var en legendarisk amerikansk revolverman i vilda västern.Han sköts till döds på en saloon i Deadwood under ett pokerspel.Handen han satt med vid tillfället, par i svarta ess och svarta åttor, [6] har ...
Hickok was born and raised on a farm in Homer, Illinois (now Troy Grove, Illinois). He went west at age 18 as a fugitive from justice. He worked first as a stagecoach driver, then as a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He fought (and spied) for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
14 de ene. de 2022 · Perhaps the most famous person to ever reside in Deadwood, South Dakota, was Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876). During a relatively short period, the defensive pistol evolved from a weather sensitive, unreliable flintlock single-shot to a multiple-shot, cartridge-firing revolver—a giant leap in technology. During our time, the defensive and ...
2 de ago. de 2016 · In the spring of 1876, Hickok made his way to the mining town of Deadwood, South Dakota. Wild Bill by then had become something of a gambler. He made a poor living from what he won at the card table. He was not a particularly good gambler. Wild Bill Hickok in a gunfight. On this day in 1876, Hickok was playing cards with his back to the saloon ...
Leben. Wild Bill Hickok wurde als viertes von insgesamt sechs Kindern des Farmers William Alonzo Hickok und seiner Frau Pamelia „Polly“ Butler in Troy Grove (damals noch Homer), Illinois, geboren.Sein Vater, ein Abolitionist, soll die heimische Farm dem aus Gegnern der Sklaverei bestehenden Netzwerk der Underground Railroad als Unterschlupf zur Verfügung gestellt haben.
2 de ago. de 2011 · Inviting Hickok to join his dramatic play entitled “Scouts of the Prairies,” Wild Bill made a decent income and was able to indulge in his love for women and gambling, but an actor, he was not. Nor was he happy; beginning to drink a lot, his acting became even worse, and finally, in March 1874, he said goodbye to Cody and headed back out West.
Charles H. Utter, better known as “Colorado Charlie,” was a trapper, guide, and prospector who made his way west, becoming good friends with Wild Bill Hickok and was acquainted with Calamity Jane.. Charlie was born in about 1838 near Niagara Falls, New York, and grew up in Illinois.As an adult, he moved west, and in the 1860s, he was earning a living as a trapper, prospector, and guide in ...
