Brink, were tried for killing McCanles, but were found to have acted in self-defense. He was arrested while using the name Haycock in 1865. While at Castle City Jane went to Gilt Edge, some two hundred miles away, where she was jailed for being drunk. Wild Bill Hickok was one of the early "Heroes of the West." He had built a reputation as an extraordinary gunfighter with a sense of fairness and justice. According to Joseph G. Rosa, Hickok's biographer and the foremost authority on Wild Bill, Hickok killed only six or seven men in gunfights. [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. Coe claimed that he was shooting at a stray dog,[g] and then suddenly turned his gun on Hickok, who fired first and killed Coe. [73], Hickok's favorite guns were a pair of Colt 1851 Navy Model (.36 caliber) cap-and-ball revolvers. 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". Calamity Jane is reputed to have led a mob that threatened McCall with lynching, but at the time of Hickok's death, Jane was actually being held by military authorities. "Wild Bill. Just weeks later, on her deathbed in Terry, South Dakota, Jane confessed that she and Jessie were now estranged and declined to say where her daughter was living. [68], As I write the closing lines of this brief sketch, word reaches me that the slayer of Wild Bill has been rearrested by the United State [sic?] By the age of 17, he was an excellent marksman. Wild Bill Hickok's iconic status is rooted in a shootout in July 1861 in what came to be known as the McCanles Massacre in Rock Creek, Nebraska. The incident helped contribute to the overall failure of the show. 2, serial number 29963, a .32 rimfire with a six-inch barrel, blued finish, and varnished rosewood grips. A former cavalryman, J.W. In 1871 he took over as the marshal of the tough cow town of Abilene, Kansas. Did Old West houses have outhouses, and were public facilities available? [62][63] Hickok may have told his friend Charlie Utter and others who were traveling with them that he thought he would be killed while in Deadwood. Doc Holliday did have a bad cough, as suggested in this episode, from his tuberculosis. Writing in 1911, he detailed his admiration for Hickok and included a paragraph on the shooting that differs considerably from the reported account: "Phil" Coe was from Texas, ran the "Bull's Head" a saloon and gambling den, sold whiskey and men's souls. Good bye, Colorado Charlie, C. H. Utter. [i][68], Jack McCall was hanged on March 1, 1877, and buried in a Roman Catholic cemetery. Children: Possibly two daughters; . [29][30], Two days later, Hickok was arrested for murder. In 1941, Jean Hickok McCormick appeared in Billings, Montana. was advancing on him with a drawn pistol and that Tutt had previously made threats of personal injury to Deft. He seemed to have respect for Hickok's abilities and replied, "If Bill needs killing, why don't you kill him yourself? (If said child had actually existed, he or she was said to . This was his sixth murder. Jean McCormick was the daughter of Jane "Calamity Jane" Cannary and James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok. The White Buffalo (1977), starring Charles Bronson as Hickok, tells a tale of Hickok's hunt for a murderous white buffalo that follows him in his nightmares. But Coe "reckoned without his host". Keith Bell Manchester, United Kingdom Calamity Jane never married Wild Bill Hickok. Hickok, just a stable-hand at the time, killed the three men, despite being severely injured. Hickok has remained one of the most popular and iconic figures of the American Old West, and is still frequently depicted in popular culture, including literature, film, and television. Jane had been hired to travel with Kohl & Middleton Dime Museums; as she purchased her ticket out of town she told railroad agent A.O. James Butler Hickok was born May 27, 1837, in Homer, Illinois, (present-day Troy Grove, Illinois) to William Alonzo Hickok, a farmer and abolitionist, and his wife, Polly Butler. Pard, we will meet again in the happy hunting ground to part no more. [13][14] He was also known before 1861 among Jayhawkers as "Shanghai Bill" because of his height and slim build. According to their account, the shootout took place not inside the Wellmans cabin but inside the Rock Creek station itself, and Hickoks defense was far from single-handed. setTimeout(function(){var t=document.createElement("script");t.setAttribute("src","https://sample.dragonforms.com/getEmbeddedClientScript.do?embeddedsite=TW_dispatch_nl"),t.setAttribute("type","text/javascript"),document.body.appendChild(t)},5); Become a subscriber today and youll recieve a new issue every month plus unlimited access to our full archive of backlogged issues. Calamity Jane! Jessie withdrew from the Academy a short time later, but in January of 1896, Jane was finally able to take her to St. Martins Academy in Sturgis. Both towns had become outposts for lawless men before Hickok arrived and turned things around. This made it difficult for the men to carry the remains to the new site. They traveled to Deadwood, South Dakota, together and were acquaintances, but there is no evidence of a romance (especially on his part). Hickok moved west in 1855 to farm and joined General James Lane's Free State. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. [3] [4] James was the fourth of six children. The bullet emerged through his right cheek and struck another player, riverboat Captain William Massie, in the left wrist. 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. McCall alleged that John Varnes, a Deadwood gambler, had paid him to murder Wild Bill. Hickok was severely injured, with a crushed chest, shoulder, and arm. At the time of the so-called McCanles Massacre, Hickok was known as Duck Bill because of his sweeping nose and protruding upper lip (covered with a mustache later in life). Author McClaird theorised that Jessie, who had no birth certificate, said what she had to in order to receive financial assistance at her last residence in California. The watch had great sentimental value to Hickok, so he asked Tutt not to wear it in public. In an instant, he pulled the triggers again sending two bullets into Coe's abdomen (Coe lived a day or two) and whirling with his two guns drawn on the drunken crowd of cowboys, "and now do any of you fellows want the rest of these bullets?" The event haunted Hickok for the rest of his life. They traveled to Deadwood, South Dakota, together and were acquaintances, but there is no evidence of a romance (especially on his part). In quick succession, Hickok was said to have then killed five members of McCanless gang and knocked out another before three more gang members threw him down on a bed, only to be bested in hand-to-hand combat by the knife-wielding Hickok. By the end of the night most of the money had been spent, and Jane was roaring drunk. He was bedridden for four months before being sent to Rock Creek Station in the Nebraska Territory to work as a stable hand while he recovered. Hickok encouraged McCall to quit the game until he could cover his losses and offered to give him money for breakfast. In 1954 an episode of Gunsmoke on CBS radio featured John Dehner as Hickok. [d] The jury voted to clear Hickok, resulting in public backlash and criticism of the verdict. Did Wild Bill Hickok have children? Citizens warned Mulvey to behave, because Hickok was sheriff. Hickok accused a J.V. The next child, also named Lorenzo Butler Hickok, was born in November of 1832. [38], In July 1869, Hickok returned to Hays and was elected city marshal of Hays and sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas, in a special election held on August 23, 1869. Marshal. To be entitled to acquittal on the ground of self-defense, he must have been anxious to avoid a conflict, and must have used all reasonable means to avoid it. By Jan MacKell Collins. [40]:192, On July 17, 1870, Hickok was attacked by two troopers from the 7th U.S. Cavalry, Jeremiah Lonergan and John Kyle (sometimes spelled Kile),[42] in a saloon. All About History is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. He was one of the early heroes of the West popularized in the dime novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His parents were William Alonzo Hickok and Polly Butler. They arrived in Topeka on April 2. Quay House, The Ambury, McCall was tried and acquitted of murder as a result of his dubious claim that the killing was in revenge for Hickoks murder of his brother in Abilene. Before being called Wild Bill Hickok, his original name was James Butler Hickok. [citation needed] Although he was just 39, his marksmanship and health were apparently in decline, and he had been arrested several times for vagrancy,[53] despite earning a good income from gambling and displays of showmanship only a few years earlier. During the Civil War he found employment as a teamster and spy for the Union Army. Russell, Majors and Waddell had not kept up with their payments for the station, and the gun-brandishing McCanles had come to demand his money from Wellman, who insisted that he did not have it and refused to relinquish the property to McCanles, as did his wife. 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. Wild Bill Hickok was an American frontiersman, army scout and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. Jessie and Jane were back together when they arrived in Billings, Montana in 1898. 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. But the U.S. marshals were on his trail and McCall was arrested on August 29, 1876 in Laramie, where he was held before he was extradited to Yankton, South Dakota. A classmate later remembered the children teasing Jessie about her mother, throwing stones at her while shouting, Calamity Jane! The enclosure was cut open by souvenir hunters in the 1950s, and the statue was removed.[71]. [38], On September 1, 1868, Hickok was in Lincoln County, Kansas, where he was hired as a scout by the 10th Cavalry Regiment, a segregated African-American unit. The couple had five children besides James Butler, three boys and two girls. Hickoks growing reputation for fairness and courage earned him, in 1858, a position as a constable in Monticello, Kansas. She claims to have known James Hickok, known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, and she is thought to have traveled with him for several years. Hickok lost a gold watch to Tutt in a poker game. We drove on to Beatrice and at the trial, his plea was self-defense; no one appeared against him, and he was cleared. The "special election" may not have been legal, as a letter dated September 17 to the governor of Kansas noted that Hickok had presented a warrant for an arrest which was rejected by the Fort Hays commander, because, when asked to produce his commission, Hickok admitted that he had never received one. The identity of the fifth card (his "hole card") is also the subject of debate. [3][4] James was the fourth of six children. Hickok left home at age 17 and worked as a canal boat pilot in Utica, Illinois, before heading west in 1856 to Bleeding Kansas, which was embroiled in a violent conflict over whether slavery should be permitted there. A semifictionalized version of Hickok's time as marshal of Abilene Kansas, titled Hickok (2017), stars Luke Hemsworth as Hickok, Trace Adkins as the Bull's Head Saloon keeper Phil Coe, Kris Kristofferson as Abilene mayor George Knox, and Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau as John Wesley Hardin. At the end of the trial, Judge Sempronius H. Boyd told the jury they could not find Hickok acted in self-defense if he could have reasonably avoided the fight. McCall was found guilty and sentenced to death. Hickok then tried acting in Wild West shows, which were growing in popularity. Two 7th Cavalry troopers jump, Most people have heard of Calamity Jane, once promoted as The Famous Woman Scout of. The cards he was holding at the time a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights became known as "the dead man's hand.". Citizens of the town complained to Hickok, who requested that Thompson and Coe remove the image. Later, after bragging of his murder of Hickok, McCall was retried in Laramie, Wyoming Territory, found guilty, and hanged on March 1, 1877. Hickok managed to fire another shot, wounding the bear's paw. Wild Bill's brother, Oliver Cromwell Hickok married and fathered five children per: Search Results from User Submitted Genealogies (only as accurate as submitter). Hickok was assigned to bring the men to Topeka for trial, and he requested a military escort from Fort Hays. He fought against slavery with General James Lane in Kansas, and operated as a constable in Johnson County. 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