Wild Bill Hickok
...t tall, had shoulder length light brown hair He left his father's farm in 1855 to be a stagecoach driver on the Santa Fe and Orgen Trail His gunfighting skills led to his nickname. In 1861 he became a town consteble in Nebraska. After the American Civil War, Hickok became an army scout and a professional gambler. In 1867. He became well-known for single-handedly capturing the McCanles gang, through the use of a ruse. Hickok took part in the Kansas struggle preceding the Civil War and was a driver of the Butterfield stage line. He gained fame as a gunfighter. He served as a Union scout in the Civil War. After the war he became deputy U.S. marshal at Fort Riley in 1866. His fame increased from an interview by Henry Stanley. In 1871, Hickok became marshal of Abilene, Kansas His reputation as a marksman in desperate encounters with outlaws made him a figure of frontier legend. He toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1872-1873, where he was romantically linked to Calamity Jane. He was fired from the show due to drunkenness. In 1876, while playing poker at Nuttal and Mann's "Saloon No. 10" in Deadwood, which was then part of the Dakota Territory but also on Indian ...