| Birth: | May 27, 1837 | | Death: | Aug. 2, 1876 | 
Western Figure. Born in Troy Grove, near Ottawa, Illinois, he took part in the Kansas struggle preceding the Civil War, was a driver of the Butterfield stage line, and gained fame as a gunfighter. He was an assistant station tender for the Pony Express at the Rock Creek, Nebraska station. He served as a Union scout in the Civil War. After the war he became deputy United States Marshal at Fort Riley (1866), Marshal of Hays, Kansas (1869), and Marshal of Abilene (1871). His reputation as a marksman in desperate encounters with outlaws made him a frontier legend. Hickok once shot and killed his own deputy in error, which was the downfall of his career as a lawman. After a tour of the East with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show(1872 to 1873), he went to Deadwood, South Dakota where he was murdered by Jack McCall while playing cards at the #10 Saloon. The hand Hickok had held, a pair of Aces and a pair of Eights, thereafter became known as "The Dead Man's Hand."
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Spouses:
Martha Jane Cannary (1852 - 1903)*
Agnes Lake (1832 - 1907)*
Children:
Jean H. Hickok McCormick (1873 - 1951)*
*Calculated relationship
Cause of death: Shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall
Search Amazon for James Hickok | | | Burial:
Mount Moriah Cemetery
Deadwood
Lawrence County
South Dakota, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 479 |
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