Accomplished historian Peter Cozzens latest book focuses on Deadwood, South Dakota between 1876 and 1879. He says those who ...

"It was lost until 1989." A photograph of James Butler Hickok, commonly known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, captured by Charles Scholten in Springfield, Missouri in 1865.

Wild Bill Hickok, dead for 113 years, had a lot to do with it legalization. The day Hickok died, he was playing five-card stud at the Nuttal and Mann’s Saloon.

While the possibility of Wild Bill Hickok having some involvement in a baseball game in Kansas City in the 1860s or ’70s cannot be completely ruled out, the research suggests that the umpiring ...

Niagara Falls is where Wild Bill Hickok dared to be an actor, a showman, and realized it was not for him. But he tried…and was trying on his financiers as well. Wild Bill Hickok met Henry M ...

According to the Black Hills Pioneer (Deadwood Dakota's only newspaper) on August 5th, 1876: "On Wednesday about 3 o'clock the report stated that J.B. Hickok (Wild Bill) was killed.

Wild Bill Hickok's final curtain came down Aug. 2, 1876, when he was assassinated in a Deadwood saloon by Jack McCall, a cross-eyed saddle tramp whose greatest ambition was to become a famous ...

Wild Bill Hickok was a figure in Shawnee history in the 1850s. The artwork, which was installed on Shawnee Mission Parkway and Nieman Road, depicts Hickok astride his legendary horse, Black Nell.

Hickok is now buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Illinois. His birthplace is now the Wild Bill Hickok Memorial and is a listed historic site by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

Wild Bill Hickok has Illinois roots in Utica. We take a bite out of a Mexican Birria pizza at Cuco’s Tacos. Step into the Wild Side as we explore a spunky box turtle from Wildlife Prairie Park.

A historic Smith & Wesson Model No. 2 Old Army Revolver owned by Wild Bill Hickok will be offered by Rock Island Auction Company in its August Premier Auction, happening Aug. 26-28.