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Hickok, Wild Bill, 1837-1876

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Personal name headingHickok, Wild Bill, 1837-1876
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Variant(s)Hickok, James Butler, 1837-1876
Hickok, Bill, 1837-1876
Wild Bill, 1837-1876
Bill, Wild, 1837-1876
Biography/History noteWild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) was an American frontiersman, gunman, and lawman.
Birth date1837-05-27
Death date1876-08-02
Place of birthTroy Grove, Ill.
Place of deathDeadwood, S.D.
Profession or occupationFrontiersman
Military scout
Marshal
Found inLife of Wild Bill, 1880.
Encyclopedia britannica, via WWW Nov. 30, 2012 (Wild Bill Hickok; James Butler Hickok; b. May 27, 1837 in Homer (now Troy Grove), Ill.; d. Aug. 2, 1876 in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (now in S.D.); American frontiersman, army scout, and lawman)
Wikipedia, via WWW, Nov. 30, 2012 (Wild Bill Hickok; James Butler Hickok; folk hero of the American Old West; gunfighter, scout, lawman; b. May 27, 1837 in Troy Grove, Ill.; d. Aug. 2, 1876 in Deadwood, Dakota Territory)
Associated languageeng