Perhaps most famously, Harper's New Monthly Magazine printed an account of the story in 1867, claiming Hickok had killed 10 men.
The story quickly became newspaper and magazine fodder. Hickok, just a stable-hand at the time, killed the three men, despite being severely injured. The incident began when David McCanles, his brother William and several farmhands came to the station demanding payment for a property that had been bought from him. 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. During the Civil War he found employment as a teamster and spy for the Union Army. He was later elected constable of Monticello Township in Johnson County, Kansas.įor the next several years, Hickok worked as a stagecoach driver.
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Hickok moved west in 1855 to farm and joined General James Lane's Free State (antislavery) forces in Kansas. The son of William Alonzo and Polly Butler Hickok, he was by all accounts a master marksman from an early age. He is also remembered for the cards he was holding when he was shot dead – a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights – since known as the dead man's hand.Ī legend during his life and considered one of the American west's premier gunfighters, James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok was born May 27, 1837, in Troy Grove, Illinois. Wild Bill Hickok is remembered for his services in Kansas as sheriff of Hays City and marshal of Abilene, where his ironhanded rule helped to tame two of the most lawless towns on the frontier.
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