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Wild Bill

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by Tom Clavin

Deadwood residency by

  death/burial of

  deputy’s accidental killing by

  in Free-Stater forces

  gambling by

  gold speculation by

  guns of

  Harper’s New Monthly Magazine’s profile on

  “Indian Annie’s” relationship with

  Jefferson County gunfight by

  Lake’s courtship by

  Lake’s marriage to

  McCanles’s gunfight with

  military service/scouting by

  Moore’s relationship with

  movie representations of

  myths/exaggerations about

  New York Herald’s profile on

  nicknames’ origins

  Owen’s relationship with

  portraits of

  premonitions by

  pulp stories on

  rheumatism of

  Schull’s relationship with

  as sheriff of Abilene

  as sheriff of Hays City

  shooting exhibitions by

  spiritualism of

  Springfield residency by

  Tutt’s gunfight with

  as U.S. marshal

  vision difficulties of

  as wagon train teamster/driver

  in Wild West productions

  Hickok, Lorenzo (first brother)

  Hickok, Lorenzo (second brother)

  Hickok, Lydia (sister)

  Hickok, Martha Edwards

  Hickok, Oliver (brother)

  Hickok, Oliver (grandfather)

  Hickok, Pamelia Butler “Polly” (mother)

  Hickok, William Alonzo (father)

  The Hickok Legend (Hickok)

  Hippo-Olympiad and Mammoth Circus

  Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (McCoy)

  Hitchcock/Hickock, Elizabeth

  Hitchcock/Hickock, Joseph

  Hitchcock/Hickock, Samuel

  Hitchcock/Hickock, William

  Homer, Illinois. See Troy Grove, Illinois

  Hood, John Bell

  Hotel Irma, Cody

  Houston, Dana

  Hoyt, George

  Hudson, Charles

  Hughes, Richard

  Hunton, John

  Hutt, Joe

  I Buried Hickok (Anderson)

  Illingworth, William

  Illinois, Troy Grove

  Illinois and Michigan Canal company

  Independence, Missouri

  “Indian Annie”

  Indian Territory, Oklahoma

  Ingalls, John James

  Jackson, Stonewall

  James, Frank

  James, Jesse

  Jameson, Henry

  Jayhawkers (guerrilla group)

  extortion by

  Jefferson County, Nebraska, gunfight at

  Jenney, Walter

  Jennison’s Jayhawkers

  John Robinson’s Circus, Menagerie, and Museum

  Johnson, Andrew

  Jones, Sam

  Judd, Yankee

  Judiciary Act of 1789

  Junction City, Kansas

  The Junction City Weekly Union

  Kansas

  Abilene

  abolitionists in

  Brigade

  cattle trade/cow towns of

  Dodge City

  Ellsworth

  Free State Army in

  geography of

  Hays City

  land giveaway in

  Leavenworth

  Marais des Cygnes Massacre in

  Monticello

  population statistics in

  Pottawatomie Massacre in

  pro-slave v. anti-slave skirmishes in

  railroad expansion in

  Topeka

  Wakarusa War in

  Kansas City, Missouri

  Antelopes (baseball team)

  Kansas City Industrial Exhibition

  The Kansas City Journal

  The Kansas City Star

  The Kansas City Times

  Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

  Kansas Pacific Railway

  Kansas State Historical Society

  Kearny, Stephen

  Killian, Jacob

  Kingsbury, E. W.

  Kiowa tribe

  Kohl & Middleton’s Dime Museum show

  Kress, William

  Ku Klux Klan

  Lake, Agnes. See Hickok, Agnes Mersman Lake

  Lake, Alice

  Lake, Bill (aka Bill Lake Thatcher)

  Lake, Emma. See Robinson, Emma Lake

  Lakota Sioux. See also Sioux Nation

  Black Hills as territory of

  Oglala band of

  Lanahan, “Rattlesnake” Pete

  Lane, James

  nicknames of

  Osceola Massacre by

  Larkin, Arthur

  laudanum

  “Laughing Sam” (gambler)

  Lawrence, Kansas

  Confederate guerrilla raid on

  Leavenworth, Kansas

  Fort Leavenworth at

  The Leavenworth Daily Commercial

  The Leavenworth Daily Conservative

  The Leavenworth Times and Conservative

  Lecompton, Kansas

  Lee, Robert E.

  Levy, Jim

  The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane (Etulain)

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Little, Theophilus

  Longstreet, James

  Lookout Mountain, Colorado

  Lorentz, Upton

  Ludlow, William

  Lyon, Nathaniel

  Lyon House Hotel, Springfield

  MacArthur, Arthur, Jr.

  MacArthur, Douglas

  “Madame Moustache” (prostitute)

  M’Afee, C. B.

  Magic City of the Plains. See Cheyenne, Wyoming

  Making-Out-Road (Cheyenne woman)

  Mammoth Circus & Gymnastic Arena Company

  Manhattan, Kansas

  Manifest Destiny

  Mann, Carl

  Mann, James

  Marais des Cygnes Massacre (Kansas)

  Marion County War (aka Tutt-Everett War)

  Marmaduke, General

  massacres

  Marais des Cygnes

  Osceola

  Pottawatomie

  Sand Creek

  Washita

  Massie, William

  Masterson, Bat

  Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico

  Mazeppa (traveling show)

  McCall, Jack (aka Bill Sutherland)

  background of

  Hickok’s murder by

  McCandless, A. D.

  McCanles, Charles

  McCanles, David

  McCanles, James

  McCanles, Mary

  McCanles, William

  McConnell, Andrew

  McCormick, Jean Hickok

  McCoy, James

  McCoy, Joseph

  McCoy, William

  McCulloch, Ben

  McDonald, James

  McLaird, James D.

  McPherson, James

  Medal of Honor

  media representations/storytelling

  in Harper’s New Monthly Hickok feature

  hype/exaggeration in

  via movies on Wild West

  in New York Herald’s Hickok feature

  via pulp novels

  Meline, James

  Memoirs (Carson)

  Mersman, Catharina

  Mersman, Frederick

  Mexico

  in Mexican-American War

  Revolution in

  Miles, Moses

  Miller, Clell

  Milner, Moses Embree “California Joe”

  death of

  Milner, Nancy

  Minutemen

  Missouri

  Bushwhackers

  Compromise of 1820

  Independence

  Osceola Massacre in

  St. Louis, Missouri

  Sedal
ia

  Springfield

  The Missouri Weekly Patriot

  Monahan, Sherry

  Montana

  Battle of Little Bighorn in

  The Montana Post

  Monticello, Kansas

  Moon, W. S.

  Moore, Susannah

  Morlacchi, Giuseppina

  Morrow, David “Prairie Dog”

  Moses & Bloomfield, Fort Hays

  Motz, Simon

  Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood

  Moyer, S. L.

  Mrs. Agnes Lake’s Hippo-Olympiad and Mammoth Circus. See also Hickok, Agnes Mersman Lake

  Mulvey, Bill

  My Life on the Plains (Custer)

  Nash, Matilda

  Native Americans. See also specific tribes

  Battle of Little Bighorn by

  Black Hawk’s War by

  diseases spread to

  massacres of

  relocation of

  Sand Creek Massacre of

  treaty negotiations with

  war parties of

  Washita Massacre of

  in Wild West shows

  Navajo tribe

  Nebraska

  Fort Kearny

  Fort McPherson

  Fort Robinson

  Jefferson County gunfight in

  Kansas-Nebraska Act and

  Rock Creek Station in

  Wild West shows in

  The New North-West

  New York City, New York

  Wild West shows in

  The New York Evening Post

  The New York Herald

  New-York Tribune

  The New York World

  Newcomb, Tom

  Newton, Henry

  Newton, Kansas

  Niagara Falls

  Niblo’s Garden, New York City

  Nichols, George Ward

  North Platte, Nebraska

  Norton, A. S.

  Norton, Brocky Jack

  Nuttall and Mann’s No. 10 saloon, Deadwood

  Oakley, Annie

  O’Connor, Richard

  Oglala Lakota tribe

  Oglala Sioux

  Oklahoma

  Fort Cobb

  Indian Territory of

  Washita Massacre in

  Old Man Jones, Abilene

  Old Wagon Show Days (Robinson)

  Omohundro, John “Texas Jack”

  death of

  in Wild West shows

  Oregon Trail

  Osceola Massacre (Missouri)

  Otero, Miguel

  Overland Stage Company

  Overland Trail

  Owen, John

  Owen, Mary Jane

  Owen, Richard Bentley

  P. T. Barnum’s Circus, Menagerie, and Museum

  P. T. Barnum’s New and Greatest Show on Earth

  Paha Sapa. See also Black Hills

  Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo

  Panic of 1837

  Panic of 1873

  Parker, Quanah

  Patinuxa (Shawnee woman)

  Patterson, Colonel (Revolutionary War)

  Patterson (boxer)

  Pawnee Killer (Sioux warrior)

  Pawnee tribe

  Peirce, Ellis

  Penrose, William

  Phelps, John

  Philips, John Finis

  Pierce, Franklin

  Pikes Peak, Colorado

  Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

  Plaine Joan (ship)

  The Plainsman (movie)

  Pleasonton, Alfred

  Pohlschneider, Maria Agnes. See Hickok, Agnes Mersman Lake

  Polk, James

  Pomeroy, S. C.

  Pony Express

  Pope, John

  Porter, Edwin

  Portland, Maine

  Pottawatomie Massacre (Kansas)

  prairie dogs, as pets

  Price, Sterling “Old Pap”

  Price Raid of 1864 (Civil War)

  prizefighting

  prostitutes

  in Abilene

  in Cheyenne

  in Deadwood

  disease spread by

  in Hays City

  pulp stories/dime novels

  on Cody

  on Hickok

  Quantrill, William

  Quantrill’s Raiders

  railroad

  cattle industry’s use of

  The Railway Advance

  Ralston, Jack

  The Real Deadwood (Ames)

  Rebs, Johnny

  Reconstruction era

  Red Cloud (Indian leader)

  Red Cloud’s War

  Red Legs (guerrilla group)

  Red River Station, Texas

  The Revenant (movie)

  Revolutionary War, U.S.

  rheumatism

  Rice, Dan

  Rich, Charles

  Richardson, Leander

  Riley, Bennett

  Rio Grande, Texas

  Robinson, Agnes Emma “Daisy”

  Robinson, Charles

  Robinson, Emma Lake

  as circus performer

  Robinson, Gil

  Robinson, John

  Rock Creek Station, Nebraska

  Rockwell & Company’s New York Circus

  Rocky Mountain Detective Association

  Roman Nose (Cheyenne leader)

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  Root, Frank

  Rosa, Joseph G.

  Roughing It (Twain)

  Rowlands, John. See Stanley, Sir Henry Morton

  Russell, Majors, and Waddell company

  Sac tribe

  The St. Louis Republican

  The St. Louis Weekly Missouri Democrat

  St. Louis, Missouri

  saloons

  in Abilene

  characteristics of

  in Deadwood

  Salt Lake City, Utah

  San Antonio, Texas

  Sanborn, John

  Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado

  Santa Fe, New Mexico

  Santa Fe Trail

  Sauk tribe

  Scarborough, George

  Schull, Sandra

  Schwatka, Frederick

  Scott, Winfield

  Scouts of the Plains show

  Scouts of the Prairie show

  Scout’s Rest Ranch, North Platte

  Second Battle of Bull Run (Civil War)

  Second Battle of Sacket’s Harbor, New York (War of 1812)

  Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry

  Secret Service, precursor to

  Sedalia, Missouri

  Selman, John

  Seventh Iowa Cavalry

  Seventh Kansas State Militia

  Seventh U.S. Cavalry

  at Battle of Little Bighorn

  Seymour, Richard

  Shakespeare, William

  Shawnee tribe

  Shenandoah Valley campaign (Civil War)

  Sheridan, Philip

  Sherman, William

  Sherman, William Tecumseh

  The Shootist (Swarthout)

  Short, Luke

  Simpson, Lewis

  Singing Grass (Arapaho woman)

  Sioux Nation

  Battle of Little Bighorn by

  Lakota Sioux in

  Oglala Sioux in

  Treaty of Fort Laramie by

  Sitting Bull (Lakota leader)

  Battle of Little Bighorn and

  in Wild West shows

  Slade, Joseph Alfred “Jack”

  slavery. See also Civil War

  Kansas skirmishes over

  Underground Railroad and

  smallpox

  Smith, Edmund Kirby

  Smith, Thomas “Bear River”

  Smoky Hill Trail

  Society of Black Hills Pioneers

  Soule, John Babsone Lane

  South Dakota

  Black Hills of

  Deadwood in

  gold speculation in

  Indian treatie
s regarding

  Pine Ridge Reservation in

  Yankton

  Spain

  civil war of

  in Spanish-American War

  “Spanish Fever” (aka “Texas Fever”)

  Springfield, Missouri

  Tutt-Hickok duel in

  The Springfield Patriot

  The Springfield Republican

  The Squaw Man (movie)

  Stanley, Henry Hope

  Stanley, Sir Henry Morton

  Stevens, Lucile

  Stilwell, Jack

  Storms, Charlie

  The Story of the Great March (Nichols)

  Strawhun, Samuel

  Stuart, J. E. B.

  Sullivan (gunman)

  Sumner, Charles

  Sutherland, Bill. See McCall, Jack

  Swarthout, Glendon

  Swearengen, Ellis Albert

  Swearengen, Lemuel

  Swearengen, Nettie

  syphilis

  Tallent, Annie

  Taylor, Zachary

  Tenth U.S. Cavalry Regiment “Buffalo Soldiers”

  The Terre Haute Express

  Terry, Alfred

  Tewodros II of Ethiopia

  Texas

  cattle industry in

  Rangers

  “Texas Jack.” See Omohundro, John “Texas Jack”

  Thayer, Isaac

  They Called Him Wild Bill (Rosa)

  They Died with Their Boots On (movie)

  Third U.S. Cavalry

  Thirty-Sixth Texas Cavalry (Confederate)

  Thomas, George

  Thompson, Ben

  Thompson, Billy

  Thompson, C. H.

  Tilghman, William

  “Tit Bit” (prostitute)

  Titusville, Pennsylvania

  Tombstone, Arizona

  Topeka, Kansas

  The Topeka Daily Commonwealth

  The Topeka Leader

  Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)

  Treaty of St. Louis (1804)

  Troy Grove, Illinois (formerly Homer)

  Trudeau, Pierre

  “The Truth About Wild Bill” (Hance)

  Tutt, Davis

  Tutt, Hansford “Hamp”

  Tutt, Lewis

  Tutt-Everett War (aka Marion County War)

  Twain, Mark

  Twenty-Seventh Arkansas Infantry Regiment

  Tyler, John

  Underground Railroad

  Union Army. See also Civil War

  Carson’s service in

  Cody’s service in

  Frontier Guard and

  Hickok as military police in

  Hickok as scout in

  Hickok as spy for

  Union Pacific Railroad

  United States Hotel, Portland

  United States Hotel, Santa Fe

  U.S. Department of Public Welfare

  USS Minnesota (battleship)

  Ute tribe

  Utter, Charles H. “Colorado Charley”

  Deadwood residency by

  Hickok’s death and

  Utter, Steve

  Van Dorn, Earl

  Varnes, Johnny

  Verckler, Stewart P.

  Victoria, Queen of United Kingdom

  Vigilance Committee, Hays City

  Wakarusa War (Kansas)

  War of 1812

  Warren, W. F.

  Washington, George

  Washita Massacre, Oklahoma

  Webb, Charles

 

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