Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout

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J. Buell. Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout

PECULIARITIES OF WILD BILL’S NATURE

LIFE OF WILD BILL

FIRST EVIDENCE OF PLUCK

BILL’S DESPERATE FIGHT AT ROCK CREEK

A RUNNING FIGHT WITH CONFEDERATES

ENTERS THE UNION ARMY AS A SPY

A RIDE WITH DEATH

CAPTURED AND CONDEMNED TO DEATH

A FIGHT WITH THREE BUSHWHACKERS

BILL’S BOWIE-KNIFE DUEL WITH AN INDIAN CHIEF

INDIAN AND BUFFALO SPECULATION

BILL’S DUEL AT SPRINGFIELD

A QUADRANGULAR DUEL IN NEBRASKA

WILD BILL’S OPINION OF YANKEES

HOW BILL KILLED JACK STRAWHAN

BILL MULVEY’S LAST ROW

A FIGHT WITH FIFTEEN SOLDIERS

A DEATH FIGHT WITH TEXAS GAMBLERS

A REWARD OF $5,000 IN GOLD OFFERED FOR BILL’S HEART

BILL THOMPSON’S FATAL SURPRISE

MAKES TWENTY MEN ASK AN APOLOGY

BILL’S FIGHT WITH PHIL COLE’S COUSIN

HE REMOVES TO KANSAS CITY

A PRIZE FIGHT IN A CHICAGO BILLIARD ROOM

BILL’S MARRIAGE TO MRS. LAKE

MAKES HIS DEBUT ON THE STAGE

BILL’S LAST TRIP TO THE BLACK HILLS

ASSASSINATION OF WILD BILL

JACK McCALL PAYS THE PENALTY

WILD BILL’S REMAINS EXHUMED AND FOUND TO BE PETRIFIED

IDIOSYNCRACIES OF BILL – HIS BELIEF IN SPIRITS

BILL’S WONDERFUL ACCURACY OF AIM

BLACK NELL, THE WONDERFUL MARE

CONCLUSION – DOES BILL DESERVE A MONUMENT?

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James B. Hickok, known to history as “Wild Bill,” was born near Troy Grove, La Salle county, Illinois, May 27th, 1837. His father and mother were both natives of Vermont, in which state they were married. Shortly after marriage, they went to New York, and remained in that state until 1834, when they removed to Illinois, and settled in Putnam county. Two years afterwards, however, they again removed to settle upon a more desirable homestead in La Salle county, where they resided until their death, the father dying in 1852 and the mother in 1878, at the advanced age of seventy-four years.

The family consisted of six children, four boys and two girls, as follows: O. C. Hickok, born in New York in 1830, and now living in California; Lorenzo B., also born in New York in 1832; Horace D., born in Putnam county, Illinois, in 1834; James B., the subject of this sketch; and Celinda D. and Lydia M., both born in La Salle county, the former in 1839 and the latter in 1841. Lorenzo and Horace are still living upon the old homestead. Celinda married a gentleman by the name of Dewey, and is now living in Mendota, La Salle county. Lydia married a Mr. Barnes, and is living in Decatur county, Kansas. Thus it will be seen that all the children are still living, with the single exception of James (Wild Bill,) whose marvelous exploits it is the purpose of the writer to faithfully, but briefly, record in this pamphlet.

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In 1856, when James was nineteen years of age, he left home for the west, Kansas being his proposed destination. The border troubles of that time, no doubt, influenced him to go to that (then) territory; for, from the time that he was twelve years of age, he manifested an ardent love for adventure. He made the rifle and pistol his earliest companions, and when he left La Salle county he had the reputation of being the best shot in that portion of the state.

The first record we have of him after leaving Illinois was during his short stay at Independence, Missouri, at which place he gained some notoriety by boldly entering the midst of a dozen infuriated men and bidding them to disperse. This event, we believe, has never before been mentioned in any of the many sketches written of him, and as it was his first act of daring, it is worthy of production here. Its truthfulness, however, we cannot vouch for, not having received the details from an eye-witness.

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