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Wild Bill Hickok, soprannome di James Butler Hickok, è stato un pistolero statunitense. Al pari di Buffalo Bill e Calamity Jane, è stato un personaggio realmente esistito del Far West: fu reso leggendario dalla sua fama di pistolero infallibile, dapprima dai racconti orali e dai resoconti giornalistici delle sue imprese, poi da un ...
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights.
- James B. Hickok, J.B. Hickok, Shanghai Bill, William Hickok, William Haycock
- Gunshot wound
- James Butler Hickok, May 27, 1837, Homer, Illinois, U.S., (now Troy Grove, Illinois, U.S.)
- Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, Dakota Territory
13 mar 2024 · Wild Bill Hickok, American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. His reputation as a gunfighter gave rise to legends and tales about his life. He was one of the early heroes of the West popularized in the dime novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
2 apr 2014 · Wild Bill Hickok was an American frontiersman, army scout and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West. Updated: Jul 28, 2020. (1837-1876) Who Was Wild Bill Hickok?
12 giu 2006 · Thanks to an article in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in February 1867 and some other colorful accounts published in the mid-1860s, Hickok, or rather ‘Wild Bill,’ as he was generally called, was soon elevated from regional to national status. And since his death in 1876, he has achieved worldwide fame.
How Wild Bill Hickok Became an American Legend. By: John Donovan. Wild Bill Hickok served as a soldier and spy for the Union Army in the Civil War before becoming the quintessential Wild West gambling gentleman gunfighter. Wikimedia Commons/HowStuffWorks. Some six decades after the button-down duel between gentlemen Aaron Burr and Alexander ...
12 giu 2006 · James Butler Hickok, the renowned ‘Wild Bill,’ remains perhaps the most famous of all Western gunfighters. His exploits as a Civil War operative, frontiersman and peace officer have been celebrated often in print, in movies, and on television.
