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James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was born in Illinois on May 27, 1837. He was a scout for the Union army during the Civil War, and gained fame as a frontier marshal and gunfighter in Kansas cow towns between 1866 and 1871. He joined Buffalo Bill for a brief time on stage in New York, 'wow'-ing the audiences with his shooting accuracy. On Aug. 2, 1876, while he was playing poker in Saloon #10 in Deadwood, Bill was shot from behind and killed by Jack McCall | ||
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Billy the Kid was one of the most notorious outlaws of the American West. According to legend, he killed at least 21 men, one for every year of his young life, before he was gunned down in the Chihuahuan Desert by New Mexico Sheriff Pat Garrett. |
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Jesse James. Of all the worlds' legendary characters, few have attracted world-wide fascination like the outlaw, Jesse James. Some call him America's Robin Hood, while others see him as a cold-blooded killer. Perhaps he was all of these things. Jesse Woodson James was born in Kearney, Missouri on September 5, 1847. His father, the Rev. Robert James. He had a brother, Frank. For 15 years, the James boys roamed throughout the U.S. robbing trains and banks of their gold, building a legend that was to live more than a century after Jesse's death. |
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