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Legends of the Old West

WILD BILL HICKOK Ep. 5 | “Scouts of the Plains”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Hickok hits his low point, but his old friend Buffalo Bill Body convinces him to join a play called “Scouts of the Plains,” and Hickok makes more money than he ever has in his life. However, Wild Bill hates the show and abruptly ends his career as an actor. Then he reunites with his longtime love, Agnes Lake. The new couple get married and decide on a plan: Bill will strike it rich in the new gold camp called Deadwood. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.9

One of the problems with being an outlaw was that your reputation allowed you to be accused

1:24.2

of anything. If you were a known bank robber, you could be accused of robbing any bank.

1:30.2

If you were a known killer, you could be accused of virtually any killing, especially in past

1:35.9

errors when movements were harder to track. Just ask Jesse James, Billy the Kid or Butch

1:41.3

and Sundance, or John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd or Bonnie and Clyde. Dillinger robbed

1:47.7

lots of banks, but not half as many as he was accused of.

1:52.3

The same problem existed if you walked the fine line between famous lawmen and famous

1:57.3

gunfighter like Wild Bill Hickoff. By the fall of 1872 and the spring of 1873, Bill had

2:05.7

two similar but opposite experiences. In the fall of 1872, he was accused of killing

2:12.4

three Oglala men in Nebraska. Bill was in Missouri at the time and very rarely traveled to Nebraska

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