FOX Business 'Legends & Lies' recounts the life of American old west James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok, an unruly lawman and gunslinger.#FoxBusiness #FoxSubscr. In 1861 he was involved in a deadly shoot-out with the McCanles Gang at the Rock Creek Station after 40-year-old David McCanles, his 12-year-old son (William) Monroe McCanles, and two farmhands, James Woods and James Gordon, called at the station's office to demand payment of an overdue second installment on the property, an event that is still the subject of much debate. The Kellogg's cereal company was the show's national sponsor. Bonhams auction company offered this pistol at auction on November 18, 2013, in San Francisco, California,[75] described as Hickok's Smith & Wesson No. It also meant fear and alarm to the common citizen, who had to deal with the drunken dangerous cowboys. Finally, her "friends" decided to also change the date of her death. A humorous, if somewhat dangerous, incident occurred during an appearance by Hickok. Her first husband, William Thatcher Lake later just known as Bill Lake, was a circus clown. In 1857, Hickok claimed a 160-acre (65 ha) tract in Johnson County, Kansas (in what is now the city of Lenexa),[4] where, on March 22 in 1858, he was elected as one of the first four constables of Monticello Township, Kansas. Rather, settlers, homesteaders, cowboys, and the like used outhouses, pots, and whatever natural options were available. As the scene unfolded, McCanles entered the station, and, from behind the curtain that divided it in two, either Hickok or Wellman shot McCanles. was advancing on him with a drawn pistol and that Tutt had previously made threats of personal injury to Deft. In 1867, his fame increased from an interview by Henry Morton Stanley. James Butler Hickbetter known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. He was released from the group after a few months. [9], Shortly before his death, Hickock wrote a letter to his new wife, which read in part, "Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wifeAgnesand with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore. A highly fictional film account of Hickok's later years and death, titled Wild Bill (1995), stars Jeff Bridges as Hickok and David Arquette as Jack McCall, and was written and directed by Walter Hill. The truth is no one knows for sure. While a Jayhawker, he met 12-year-old William Cody (later known as "Buffalo Bill"), who, despite his youth, served as a scout just two years later for the U.S. Army during the Utah War. This was at the time of the Indian Wars that counted the Great Plains as a battleground, and Hickok sometimes served as a scout for George A. Custer's 7th Cavalry.[2]. Advertisement. [23][b], After the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Hickok became a teamster for the Union Army in Sedalia, Missouri. [61], Hickok died instantly. Hickok rode Buckshot while 300-pound Jingles rode Joker. [46]:4558[48] A newspaper reported, "A man was killed in his bed at a hotel in Abilene, Monday night, by a desperado called 'Arkansas'. As Hickok biographer Joseph Rosa states, in his definitive book "They Called Him Wild Bill", "thus the two were linked together in a relationship in death which had never existed in life". The man's name was H.C. Lindsay, and he and Hickok knew each other from old Indian campaign days. Hickok invented the practice of "posting" men out of town. Just as he pulled the trigger, one of the policemen rushed around the corner between Coe and the pistols and both balls entered his body, killing him instantly. [54], Charles Snyder, the Lucien Howe Librarian of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, said "Granular conjunctivitis, ophtalmia, trachomacall it what you willwas common on the Western Frontier. They would learn that the new Marshal was of iron will, expert with guns, fearless in the performance of his duties, and possessed of a well earned reputation as a killer of men when necessary. Hickok moved to Leavenworth in the Kansas Territory, where he joined Jim Lane's Free State Army (also known as the Jayhawkers), an antislavery vigilante group active in the new territory during the Bleeding Kansas era. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok was a 1950s TV series starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine. Jane had died on the 1st of August 1903, but they changed it to August 2nd 1903 to correspond to the anniversary of Hickok's death. In the melee that followed, Hickok shot Woods, who, most historians agree, was then attacked and ultimately killed with a hoe by Mrs. Wellman. Was he shooting back? This incident added to his fame as a gunslinger, which skyrocketed when journalist and later explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley reported as fact in the New York Herald in 1867 Hickoks exaggerated claim that he had killed 100 men. At the time, shooting stray dogs within city limits was legal, and a 50-cent bounty was paid by the city for each one shot. Hickok more than proved that title during that night. Hickok's favorite guns were a pair of cap-and-ball Colt 1851 .36 Navy Model pistols, which he wore until his death. Interestingly, most newspapers continued to use the name William Haycock when referring to "Wild Bill" until 1869 despite military records after 1865 using his correct name while acknowledging he was also known as Haycock. There are many stories concerning why there was bad feeling between Coe and Hickok. Wild Bill is probably the most famous Deadwood resident, even though he was only in town a few short weeks. There is also a confrontation, between Hickok and five cavalry troopers, that is somewhat in dispute as to the exact facts of the event. Hickok accused a J.V. The above "gunfight" is the first recorded of a classical type of western shootout. Bill Lake was shot to death in 1869, but Agnes continued with the traveling show. William Austin, the cemetery caretaker, estimated 500lb (230kg). The men, women, and children of his own time echoed the words of that old woman of Abilene, "He was a grand man, Marshal Hickok, a grand man". And, that he hadn't "gambled" in two years! Rosa conjectures that Wellman had far more of a motive to kill McCanles, a belief supported by McCanles's son's own account. On December 9, Hickok and Lanihan both served legal papers on Macintosh, and local newspapers acknowledged that Hickok had guardianship of Hays City. How or why the confrontation occurred, and the exact sequence of events are in not known. Eventually, Hickok's "Aces and eights" became widely accepted as the "Dead Man's Hand. On March 5, 1876, Hickok married Agnes Thatcher Lake, a 50-year-old circus proprietor in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. Utter.". Drawn to this ruffian lifestyle, he headed west at age 18 as a fugitive from justice, working as a stagecoach driver and later as a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Hickok is known to have fatally shot six men and is suspected of having killed a seventh (McCanles). The cemetery was moved in 1881, and when McCall's body was exhumed, the noose was found still around his neck.[69]. Hickok though continued to focus his attention on Coe. Apparently, this was also the opinion of the local court, that looked into the matter, since no charges were brought against Hickok. On several later occasions, Hickok was to confront and kill several men while fighting alone. It is likely that Hickok was already acting sheriff when elected as a newspaper reported him arresting offenders on 18 August and the commander of Fort Hays praised Hickok for his work in apprehending deserters in a letter he wrote to the Assistant Adjutant General on 21 August. Add to Playlist. They quibble over meaningless points, and judge him with the values of another time and another place. Now, instead of her father being just a "cousin" of Hickok's, Hickok himself was her father! Tutt's shot missed, but Hickok's didn't, piercing Tutt through the side from about 75 yards away. I Killed Wild Bill Hickok (1956) WESTERN part 2/2. In the early 1990s ABC television series Young Riders, a fictional account of Pony Express riders, Hickok is portrayed by Josh Brolin.[80]. A collection of fifty-six letters from the family of James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok. Funeral services will be held at Charlie Utter's Camp, on Thursday afternoon, August 3, 1876, at 3 o'clock P. M. All are respectfully invited to attend. In this town there was a young man, in jail, being threatened by an angry lynch mob. Now the citizens of Abilene were to witness a transformation. Rosa conjectures that Wellman had far more of a motive to kill McCanles, a belief supported by McCanles' son's own account. Hardin was an extremely accomplished gunfighter and was known to have killed over 40 men in his lifetime; he in turn idealized Hickok and identified with Wild Bill. [4]. It is said he met the famous frontiersman Kit Carson while so employed. In 1859 he joined the Russell, Waddell, and Majors freight company called the Pony Express. As the old cemetery was an area that was better suited for the constant influx of new settlers to live on, the remaining bodies there were moved up the hill to the Mount Moriah Cemetery in the 1880s. Hickok ran as an Independent; but lost to his deputy, Peter Lanihan, who ran as a Democrat. Good bye, Colorado Charlie, C. H. On September 4, Hickok was wounded in the foot while rescuing several cattlemen in the Bijou Creek basin who had been surrounded by Indians. Hickok then tried acting in Wild West shows, which were growing in popularity. Hickoks family emigrated from England in 1635 to Massachusetts, where his great-grandfather responded to the British march on Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the American Revolution. Hardin left Kansas before Hickok could arrest him. He died in 1917 at the age of 70 in Denver, Colorado. She would later claim they had a romantic relationship, and to have been one of Hickok's closest friends. One of the escaped slaves, identified as "Hannah", liked the Hickok family so much she stayed with them for many years. [27] The outlaw John Wesley Hardin was in Abilene in 1871, and was befriended by Hickok. James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was born in Homer, Illinois in 1837. The bullet hit Hickok in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Normally, as a cowherd approached Abilene, riders from town were sent out to warn the local farms. One account of him, written in the late 1860s, described Hickok as six feet tall, lithe, active, sinewy, [a] daring rider, [a] dead shot with pistol and rifle, [with] long locks, fine features and mustache, buckskin leggings, red shirt, broad-brim hat, twin pistols in belt, rifle in hand. Despite his rough-and-ready ways, Hickok was also said to have been genteel and courteous and to have enjoyed dressing with panache in the latest styles of the day. He quickly became known as a superb marksman. James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok Born 27 May 1837 in Troy Grove, LaSalle, Illinois, United States Ancestors Son of William Alonzo Hickok and Pamelia (Butler) Hickok Brother of Oliver Cromwell Hickok, Lorenzo (UNKNOWN) Hickok, Lorenzo Butler Hickok, Horace Dewey Hickok, Celinda (Hickok) Smith and Lydia (Hickok) Barnes Hickok's term as city Marshal of Hays ended, and in 1870 he decided to visit an old friend in Topeka Kansas. One of the workers, Joseph McLintock, wrote a detailed description of the re-interment. Hickok met his true and only wife while Marshal of Abilene. He was a stagecoach driver on the Santa Fe and Oregon trails, a spy and scout for the Union Army, marshal of two cities, and traveled with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Nonetheless, Hickok was reported by some to have appeared with Buffalo Bill in 1873 in a stage play titled "Scouts of the Plains". It meant money for shopkeepers, saloon owners and brothels. He would walk down the center of the street, eyes darting back and forth. On October 5, 1871, Hickok was standing off a crowd during a street brawl when Coe fired two shots. Marshal. Aug 2 1876 - Deadwood, Dakotah Territory - Mann's Saloon No. Legend has it that Hickok was playing poker when he was shot, was holding a pair of aces, a pair of eights, and a queen. Good bye, Colorado Charlie, C. H. A branch of the family moved to America in 1635. The charge was later reduced to manslaughter. Hickok's horse was called Black Nell, and he owned two Colt 1851 Navy Revolvers. In July, Hickok told a newspaper reporter that he had led several soldiers in pursuit of Indians who had killed four men near the fort on July 2. American folk hero and lawman (18371876), For the American football player and industrialist, see, Arapaho Joe and Colorado Charlie Utter at Hickok's grave, photograph date unknown, Pistols known to have been carried by Hickok. [9], In 1865, Hickok recruited six Native Americans and three cowboys to accompany him to Niagara Falls, where he put on an outdoor demonstration called The Daring Buffalo Chasers of the Plains. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory. In accordance with her dying wish, Martha Jane Cannary, known popularly as Calamity Jane, was buried next to him. While Hickok claimed to have killed numerous named and unnamed gunmen in his lifetime, his career as a gunfighter only lasted from 1861 to 1871. Hickok was assigned to bring the men to Topeka for trial, and he requested a military escort from Fort Hays. Good bye, Colorado Charlie, C. H. Deadwood however, has gone through many more changes than Troy Grove. His life was an interesting one. It involves a woman that, in life, had almost nothing whatever to do with him, except share the same area of the country for a brief time. "Doc" Howard, who had known Hickok, stated that Hickok had left Buffalo Bill's Wild West Exhibition "because the lights affected his eyes, so he had to give it up". The mob didn't utter a sound. In my opinion, these would be the "cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat", in the "arena" of life, spoken of by Theodore Roosevelt. He enforced the law as he saw fit. "J.B. Hickok, Deputy U.S. The bear attacked, crushing Hickok with its body. Am. The bullet emerged through his right cheek and struck another player, riverboat Captain William Massie, in the left wrist. Witnesses confirm that the story was true to the extent the party had set out to find whoever had killed the four men,[e] but the group returned to the fort "without nary a dead Indian, [never] even seeing a live one". Hickok and his accomplices, the station manager Horace Wellman, his wife, and an employee, J.W. Upon Hickoks arrival, she told him that a Confederate gang led by McCanles was pursuing him, and almost immediately they were set upon by the Confederates. [d] The jury voted to clear Hickok, resulting in public backlash and criticism of the verdict. [f], The regular county election was held on November 2, 1869. The identity of the fifth card (his "hole card") is also the subject of debate. The county was having particular difficulty holding sheriffsthree had quit over the previous 18 months. ", Rosa, Joseph G. (1977). In the plot beside him lies the remains of another Wild West legend, Calamity Jane, whose dying wish supposedly was to be buried next to Wild Bill. Bonhams . Some were ex-Union soldiers, some were ex-Confederate. It was written by Michael Lanahan and directed by Timothy Woodward Jr. Hickok remained in Hays through August 1868, when he brought 200 Cheyenne Indians to Hays to be viewed by "excursionists". The wagon train arrived in Deadwood in July 1876. [57] The two possibly met for the first time after Jane was released from the guardhouse in Fort Laramie and joined the wagon train in which Hickok was traveling. He earned a reputation as a skilled scout. In 1857, Hickok claimed a 160-acre (65ha) tract in Johnson County, Kansas, near present-day Lenexa. When the American Civil War began, Hickok joined the Union forces and served in the west, mostly in Kansas and Missouri. Lorenzo, and brother James, decided to take a hand,in the matter, and prevented any harm coming to the young man. Mulvey angrily declared that he had come to town to kill Hickok. The Hickoks were descendants of the Hiccocks family of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, neighbors of William Shakespeare. On 9 December, Hickok and Lanihan both served legal papers on Macintosh and local newspapers acknowledged that Hickok had guardianship of Hays City. The regiment was none other than the famous "7th" Cavalry, led by the equally famous Lt. William died in 1645 leaving a widow and 2 young sons, Samuel and Joseph. In neither of these actions was any blame laid upon Hickok. On April 15th 1871 he was sworn in as Marshal at a salary of $150 dollars a month. My 8th Grandfather was Thomas Fairchild, a founder of Stratford, CT, and I come thru the lineage of his son, Joseph.Anyway, I also recently noticed a celebrity tree on Genealogy.com that links Wild Bill Hickok with Fairchilds, as . There are no records which prove, or disprove that a child was born to them. Updated on March 08, 2017. Buffalo Bill also earned the respect of the great Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and was an early advocate of equal pay for women. Two more Hickok children were eventually born, Celinda Hickok in September of 1839, and Lydia Hickok in October of 1842. [9][41], The second killed by Hickok was Samuel Strawhun, a cowboy, who was causing a disturbance in a saloon at 1:00 am on September 27, when Hickok and Lanihan went to the scene. Many attempts upon Hickok's life were made during these days. At the [second] trial it was suggested that [McCall] was hired to do his work by gamblers who feared the time when better citizens should appoint Bill the champion of law and order a post which he formerly sustained in Kansas border life, with credit to his manhood and his courage. He thought nothing of running a man out of town, rather than locking him up in jail. Deadwood was overrun with miners, gunmen, and gamblers when Hickok became a peace officer there in July 1876, relying as much on his reputation as on his diminishing gun skills, which were compromised by failing eyesight. William Orville "Wild Bill" Hickok III (August 23, 1874 - September 4, 1933) was an American football player and industrialist. On 4 September, Hickok was wounded in the foot while rescuing several cattlemen in the Bijou Creek Basin who were surrounded by Indians. He was holding two pairs: black aces and black eights (although there is some dispute as to the suit of one of the aces, diamond vs. spade) as his "up cards", which has since become widely known as the "dead man's hand". The first major description of the incident appeared in Harpers New Monthly Magazine in February 1867, six years after the fact, written by Col. George Ward Nichols, who claimed to have been told the story by Hickok in 1865. Tutt left the saloon but returned to the square at 6 p.m., while Hickok arrived on the other side and warned him not to approach him while wearing the watch. They had ivory grips and nickel plating, and were ornately engraved with "J.B. Hickok1869" on the backstrap. He was involved in several notable shootouts during the course of his life. Apparently, a local bartender had bested a group of local toughs in a fight. Unfortunately, for the forger of the diary, the Cunard steamship line has always maintained highly detailed records. When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Hickok signed on as a teamster for the Union Army in Sedalia, Missouri, and by the end of the year he was a wagonmaster. Hickok later would return to the east for another attempt at show business. Hickok had only three deputies and himself, to control upwards of five thousand rowdy citizens. The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs; black aces and eights. This Smith & Wesson Model No. On this fateful day Wild Bill violated one of his own cardinal rules and was sitting with his back to a door. Hickok was a favourite of Custer and his wife, Libbie, who described him as a delight to look upon. Hickoks physical appearance was by many accounts arresting. He also did some farming again during this period of his life. To date, four children have been credited to the lady, although some of the claims have come from the children themselves. Of course there was not a shred of evidence or documentation to verify this outlandish claim. ", "James Butler Hickok May 27 1837 - August 2 1876 Better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok", "James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok, Early Deadwood", "Nebraska Legends: Rock Creek Station and the McCanles Massacre", "Chronology on Life of James Butler HICKOK, Wild Bill Hickok, Old West Kansas", "Rock Creek Station State Historical Park", "Legal Culture, Wild Bill Hickok and the Gunslinger Myth", "Myths and Realities of Frontier Violence: A Look at the Gunfighter Saga", "Frontier Hero - Reminiscences of Wild Bill Hickok by his old Friend Buffalo Bill", "The State Journal (Jefferson City, Mo. Fiction later typified this kind of gunfight, but Hickok's is, in fact, the first one on record that fits the portrayal. 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