WILD BILL HICKOK Ep. 4 | “Marshal of Abilene”
Legends of the Old West
Black Barrel Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 1:17.2 | On a hot night in August of 1871, Abilene Marshall Wild Bill Hickock was summoned to the |
| 1:23.5 | American House Hotel. Gun shots had erupted in the night, and Hickock needed to figure |
| 1:29.1 | out what was going on. The details of the shooting are still in question, so it's likely |
| 1:34.4 | Hickock knew even less than we do today. He rushed into the lobby and was probably directed |
| 1:40.4 | to the source of the shots on the second floor. There was a dead man in one of the rooms, |
| 1:45.6 | and he was clearly the victim of the shooting. His name would be reported in the Abilene |
| 1:50.5 | Chronicle as Charles Cougar. The newspaper also stated that there were four bullet holes |
| 1:56.9 | in the wall of Cougar's hotel room. It looked like someone in the neighboring room had |
| 2:01.5 | fired through the wall and killed Cougar while the poor man was sitting in his bed reading |
| 2:06.7 | the newspaper. There was obviously nothing Bill could do for the dead man, so he looked |
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