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"Wild
Bill" Hickok
Deadwood, South Dakota |
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James Butler Hickok
Alias "Wild Bill"
Born May 27, 1837 - Troy Grove, Illinois
Died August 2, 1876 - Deadwood, Dakota Territory
Victim of the assassin Jack McCall.
James Butler Hickok, alias "Wild Bill" Hickok was
murdered in Deadwood on August 2, 1876. Wild Bill came, as many
others did, to the Deadwood gold camp in search of adventure and
fortune. While pursing what others often said was his only true
passion - gambling - he was shot in the back of the head and killed
instantly by a local rogue, Jack McCall. A hastily convened
miners' court found McCall innocent, but he was later tried by a regular
court, found guilty and hanged. Wild Bill's friends buried him in
the Ingleside Cemetery, but two years later he was reburied at the
present site in Mount Moriah. Wild Bill's colorful life included
service as a marshal, an Army scout in the Civil War and numerous other
tasks which called for a fast gun and no aversion to bloodshed. - Mt.
Moriah Cemetery Guide
J.B. Hickok
Died August 2, 1876
by pistol shot.
Aged 39 years.
Custer was lonely without him.
Erected by J.H. Riordan of N.Y. - 1891
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