The Plainsman: A Story of Wild Bill Hickok
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"In the following pages I have endeavoured to give the reader a plain, honest, homespun account of my state in life, and some few of the difficulties which have attended me along its journey, down to this time. I am perfectly aware, that I have related many small and, as I fear, uninteresting circumstances; but if so, my apology is, that it was rendered necessary by a desire to link the different periods of my life together, as they have passed, from my childhood onward, and thereby to enable the reader to select such parts of it as he may relish most, if, indeed, there is any thing in it which may suit his palate."
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Frank Jenners Wilstach. The Plainsman: A Story of Wild Bill Hickok
The Plainsman: A Story of Wild Bill Hickok
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. THE PRINCE OF PISTOLEERS
CHAPTER II. ANCESTRY AND EARLY MANHOOD
CHAPTER III. THE MAGNUM OPUS OF PISTOLRY
CHAPTER IV. THE MCCANLES MYSTERY SOLVED
CHAPTER V. WARTIME ADVENTURES
CHAPTER VI. FIGHT WITH CONQUERING BEAR AND A NEW INDIAN ROMANCE
CHAPTER VII. THE DUEL WITH DAVE TUTT
CHAPTER VIII. A BLUE RIBBON OUTBURST OF GUNS
CHAPTER IX. ON THE PLAINS WITH THE WILSON PARTY
CHAPTER X. MARSHAL OF HAYS CITY AND ABILENE
CHAPTER XI. WILD BILL STARTS A WILD WEST SHOW
CHAPTER XII. TRAITS AND PERSONAL APPEARANCE
CHAPTER XIII. THREE SHOOTING STARS
CHAPTER XIV. A VISIT TO CHEYENNE
CHAPTER XV. ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XVI. THE CALAMITY JANE—WILD BILL MYTH
CHAPTER XVII. LAST DAYS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF JACK MCCALL
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Frank Jenners Wilstach
Madison & Adams Press, 2022
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For several months he was identified with the Red Legs and came to be recognized by Lane, according to the fable, as “the most effective man in his command.”
The records show that in 1857 he filed a claim for one hundred and sixty acres in Monticello Township, Johnson County, Kansas. Although he was not yet of age, his reputation as a fighter and dead shot had been heralded far and wide, with the result that he was elected constable. This was Wild Bill’s first post as peace officer. He buckled on his pistols and announced that he proposed that peace and order should reign in his bailiwick, and it did.
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