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Wild Billl

by James W. Buel

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Author
Buel, James W. (James William), 1849-1920
Title
Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout being a true an exact history of all the sanguinary combats and hair-breadth escapes of the most famous scout and spy America ever produced.
Credits
Produced by Shaun Pinder, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
Subject
Hickok, Wild Bill, 1837-1876
Category
Text
eBook-No.
46927
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46927
Release Date
September 21, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.LIFE AND MARVELOUS ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL, THE SCOUT.
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.PECULIARITIES OF WILD BILL’S NATURE.
  4. 4.LIFE OF WILD BILL.
  5. 5.WILD BILL’S EARLY LIFE.
  6. 6.FIRST EVIDENCE OF PLUCK.
  7. 7.BILL’S DESPERATE FIGHT AT ROCK CREEK
  8. 8.A RUNNING FIGHT WITH CONFEDERATES.
  9. 9.ENTERS THE UNION ARMY AS A SPY.
  10. 10.A RIDE WITH DEATH.
  11. 11.CAPTURED AND CONDEMNED TO DEATH.
  12. 12.A FIGHT WITH THREE BUSHWHACKERS.
  13. 13.BILL’S BOWIE-KNIFE DUEL WITH AN INDIAN CHIEF.
  14. 14.INDIAN AND BUFFALO SPECULATION.
  15. 15.BILL’S DUEL AT SPRINGFIELD.
  16. 16.A QUADRANGULAR DUEL IN NEBRASKA.
  17. 17.WILD BILL’S OPINION OF YANKEES.
  18. 18.HOW BILL KILLED JACK STRAWHAN.
  19. 19.BILL MULVEY’S LAST ROW.
  20. 20.A FIGHT WITH FIFTEEN SOLDIERS.
  21. 21.A DEATH FIGHT WITH TEXAS GAMBLERS.
  22. 22.A REWARD OF $5,000 IN GOLD OFFERED FOR BILL’S HEART.
  23. 23.BILL THOMPSON’S FATAL SURPRISE.
  24. 24.MAKES TWENTY MEN ASK AN APOLOGY.
  25. 25.BILL’S FIGHT WITH PHIL COLE’S COUSIN.
  26. 26.HE REMOVES TO KANSAS CITY.
  27. 27.A PRIZE FIGHT IN A CHICAGO BILLIARD ROOM.
  28. 28.BILL’S MARRIAGE TO MRS. LAKE.
  29. 29.MAKES HIS DEBUT ON THE STAGE.
  30. 30.BILL’S LAST TRIP TO THE BLACK HILLS.
  31. 31.ASSASSINATION OF WILD BILL.
  32. 32.JACK McCALL PAYS THE PENALTY.
  33. 33.WILD BILL’S REMAINS EXHUMED AND FOUND TO BE PETRIFIED.
  34. 34.IDIOSYNCRACIES OF BILL—HIS BELIEF IN SPIRITS.
  35. 35.BILL’S WONDERFUL ACCURACY OF AIM.
  36. 36.BLACK NELL, THE WONDERFUL MARE.
  37. 37.CONCLUSION—DOES BILL DESERVE A MONUMENT?
  38. 38.Transcribers’ Notes

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