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The two were to meet again in Charlie Utter's 1876 wagon train from Colorado to Deadwood, South Dakota, where the three of them remained close friends. He was fired from the show due to drunkenness.

Hickok toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1872-1873, where he befriended Calamity Jane, who was later to claim a romantic relationship which appears dubious, Hickok being newly married and greatly enamored of his wife. His encounter there with John Wesley Hardin resulted in the latter fleeing the town after Wild Bill managed to disarm him. In 1871, Hickok became marshal of Abilene, Kansas. Hickok's killing of Whistler the Peacemaker with a long range rifle shot had influence in preventing the Sioux from uniting to resist the settler incursions into the Black Hills. In 1867, his fame increased from an interview by Henry Morton Stanley. He became well-known for single-handedly capturing the McCanles gang, through the use of a ruse.Īfter the American Civil War, Hickok became an army scout and a professional gambler. In 1861, he became a town constable in Nebraska. In 1857, he claimed a 160 acre tract of land in Johnson County, Kansas (in what is now the city of Lenexa) and became constable of Monticello Township.

His gunfighting skills led to his nickname.

Wild bill hickok driver#

He left his father's farm in 1855 to be a stagecoach driver on the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837-August 2, 1876) better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a semi-legendary figure in the American Wild West.