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Title:
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Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Wild Bill Hickok
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Collection Name:
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WPA Collection
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Collection Number:
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WPA Bio 442
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Item Description:
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Hickok, Wild Bill - Biographical information for James W. Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok; postcard photo of "Wild Bill" Hickok", 1980; "Wild Bill Hickok", , undated clipping contributed by Kay Andereson, Saratoga, Wyo.; "[Wild Bill', The Most Famous Scout, Spy and Early Day Peace Officer American Has Ever Produced", an incomplete article [pp. 45-80] published Wyoming News, Worland, Wyo., May 2, 1936
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Creator:
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Miss Anna M. Lewis
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Location:
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Laramie (Wyo.)
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Date:
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1938 November 10
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Link to Finding Aid:
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https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Notes:
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Troy Grove (Ill.) b: 1873
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Comanche Indians
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Salisbury, Nate
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billiard hall brawl (Chicago, Ill.)
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Custer, George A. (friend)
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Bludso, Jim (victim)
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Follow the Guidon (Mrs. Custer)
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Hickock, Martha Jane Canary [aka Cannary, aka Calamity Jane] (wife)
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Stanley, Henry M. (memoirs)
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Nichols, George Ward (memoirs)
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Utter, Charlie (packer, friend)
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Coe, Phil (gambler)
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Milner, Joe (friend, California Joe)
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Ellsworth (S. D.)
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Notes:
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long hair explanation
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Strawhan, Jack (desperado)
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Buntline, Ned (historian-author)
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Notes:
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romance and marriage
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traits and personal appearance
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Cheyenne (Wyo.)
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Calamity Jane (wife's nickname)
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Notes:
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Calamity Jane - Wild Bill myth
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Carrol, Columbus (and his turbulent cowpokes)
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Notes:
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Utter, Charlie
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Rose, Mickey (bar keeper)
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Coursey, O. W. (Black Hills historian
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McCall, Jack (assassin)
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Leavenworth (Kan.)
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Hay City (Kan.)
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Peirce, Doc (impromptu undertaker)
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Deadwood (S. D. - burial site)
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Leavenworth (Kan.)
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Notes:
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Frontier Hotel (Leavenworth, Kan.)
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Notes:
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wagon master
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Notes:
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Wild Bill (nickname)
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Notes:
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born: May 27, 1837, at Homer, now Troy Grove (LaSalle Co., Ill.)
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Hickok, Agnes Mersman Thatcher (wife, born: Aug. 23, 1826, at Doehm, Alsace, France - married: 1876 [or 1875] - died: Aug. 21, 1907, at Jersey City, N. J. - buried: Spring Grove Cemetery at Cincinnati, Ohio)
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children: Jean H.
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died: Aug. 2, 1876 (age: 39), at Deadwood (Lawrence Co., S. D.)
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Notes:
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Mulvey, Bill (outlaw)
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buried: Mount Moriah Cemetery (Plot: Garden LN, Sec., 17, Lot 2, Space 3 - Memorial ID: 479) at Deadwood
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Abilene (Tex.)
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Nebraska
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South Dakota
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Williams, Jim (deputy)
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Marshal (Abilene, Tex.)
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Notes:
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McCandless outlaw gang
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Rock Creek stage station
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Overland Stage
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Brinck, Doc
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Young, Harry (bartender's memoirs)
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Fort Hays (Hays City, Kan. - arrest of soldiers)
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Notes:
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showman
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Little, C. E. (memoirs of Dickinson Co. Fair)
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Lake, Mrs. Agnew Bill (circus proprietor and future wife - Martha Jane Canary)
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Notes:
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Wild West Show (Omaha, Neb.)
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Notes:
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California
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Notes:
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Omaha (Neb.)
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Rights:
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No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
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Type:
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Text
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