{"id":31,"date":"2008-05-27T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:01:29","slug":"its-wild-bill-hickoks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/its-wild-bill-hickoks-day.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s Wild Bill Hickok’s Day …."},"content":{"rendered":"

Wild Bill Hickok<\/strong><\/a> – James Butler Hickok – was born on May 27, 1837 in <\/strong>Troy Grove, Illinois<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Famous in movies, films and hundreds of newspaper articles<\/a> – he is central to the legends of the Old West. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Illustration: \"Illustration: Newspapers<\/a> serialized his story and pictured him fighting bears, outlaws and Confederate agents. <\/span><\/strong>Images by Van Ben.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


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Newspapers<\/a> reported the high moments and the low ones – like the time he mistakenly killed a friend – Special Deputy Marshall <\/strong><\/span>Mike Williams<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>
\n(Aberdeen (SD) American – 10 Jan 1908).<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThey called him a hero and a coward (Columbus Daily Enquirer – 11 May 1899<\/a><\/em>)<\/span>. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But the real coward was his killer <\/strong><\/span>Jack McCall<\/strong><\/span><\/a> who shot him – in the back – in 1876.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"DallasHe was shot in the back and killed by <\/strong>Jack McCall<\/strong><\/a> in 1876 in<\/strong> Deadwood, SD<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Image by Van Ben <\/strong><\/span>Dallas Morning News <\/em>27 May 1928<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n

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GenealogyBank<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has over 3,400 newspapers packed with historical articles about the<\/span> Old West right up to today. Give it a try right now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wild Bill Hickok – James Butler Hickok – was born on May 27, 1837 in Troy Grove, Illinois. Famous in movies, films and hundreds of newspaper articles – he is central to the legends of the Old West. Newspapers serialized his story and pictured him fighting bears, outlaws and Confederate agents. Images by Van Ben. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1128,5285,1878,1653,1158,634,934,1129,1661,66,1674,1097,1829,5351,1874,5366,1038,27,927,928,929,935,860,859,5458],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-american","tag-butler","tag-center","tag-columbus","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-delaware-genealogical-society","tag-family","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-hispanic","tag-id","tag-illinois","tag-in","tag-james","tag-ms","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-old-west","tag-sd","tag-troy-grove","tag-union-city-grille","tag-wild-bill","tag-wild-bill-hickok","tag-williams"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99847,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/99847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}