Wild Bill Hickok | Legendary Lawman (Part 2)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Wild Bill leaves Independence after killing Davis Tutt and pursues employment as a scout and U.S Deputy Marshal. As Hickok’s notoriety increases, he goes on to serve as Marshal in the rough Kansas towns of Hays and Abilene before joining Buffalo Bill Cody and Texas Jack Omohundro in New York City. This is part 2 of Wild Bill series. In part one we covered Hickok’s childhood, his time in Bleeding Kansas, his first known gunfight with David McCanles, time spent serving the Union during the war, and the famous duel with Davis Tutt. If you haven’t already, please give it a listen and stick around for the 3rd and final installment! Wild Bill Hickok | Part One - https://www.wildwestextra.com/wild-bill-hickok-part-one/ Wild Bill Hickok | Part Three - https://www.wildwestextra.com/wild-bill-hickok-part-three/ Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Become a YouTube Paid Member for bonus content! https://www.youtube.com/c/WildWestExtravaganza Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Just a real quick word and then we'll get started. This is part two of Wild Bill's story.
0:35.9	In part one, we covered Hickok's childhood, his time in bleeding
0:39.2	Kansas, as well as his first known gunfight with David McCandless, his service with a union
0:44.2	during the war, and the famous duel with Davis Tut. If you haven't already, please give
0:49.5	episode one a listen. Link in the show notes. All right, with that out of the way, let's get it going.
0:55.7	My name's Josh, and you're listening to the Wild West extravaganza.
1:08.5	If you'll recall, we left off with Hickok killing his friend turned enemy Davis-Tut.
1:13.6	Now, that shootout occurred on July 21, 1865.
1:17.9	Like I said, in part one, Hickok was arrested and charged with murder, but ultimately acquitted.
1:23.3	Not everybody was happy with this verdict, yet despite public backlash, Hickok did stick around Springfield for a while and even unsuccessfully ran for Town Marshall in September of that same year.
1:34.2	Once the election was over, I guess Hickok felt like it was time to move on, so he bid Springfield to do, and headed west back to his old stomping grounds in Kansas.
1:42.8	Fort Riley, Kansas, to be exact.
1:45.5	Now, there are some claims that Bill became a U.S. deputy marshal while there at Fort Riley,
1:50.3	but while there are documents stating he was recommended for the job,
1:53.9	there's nothing showing that he actually worked in such an official capacity upon arrival.
1:59.2	What we do know is that he was contracted out by a Captain R. B. Owen in
2:03.4	March of 1866 to quote, hunt up public property for 125 bucks a month, which is a little over
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