![]() ![]() While Hickok claimed to have killed numerous named and unnamed gunmen in his lifetime, his career as a gunfighter only lasted from 1861 to 1871. He is chiefly portrayed as a protagonist, although historical accounts of his actions are often controversial, and much of his career is known to have been exaggerated both by himself and by contemporary mythmakers. Many historic sites and monuments commemorate his life, and he has been depicted numerous times in literature, film, and television. Hickok remains a popular figure of frontier history. The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs black aces and eights. In 1876, Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (present-day South Dakota) by Jack McCall, an unsuccessful gambler. ![]() He was involved in several notable shootouts during the course of his life. He fought and spied for the Union Army during the American Civil War and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, actor, and professional gambler. Drawn to this ruffian lifestyle, he headed west at age 18 as a fugitive from justice, working as a stagecoach driver and later as a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Hickok was born and raised on a farm in northern Illinois at a time when lawlessness and vigilante activity were rampant because of the influence of the " Banditti of the Prairie". Some contemporaneous reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of much of his fame and reputation. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself. He took a step toward her, but even as he did, she made a choking sound and fled.James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as " Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He bitterly regretted his moment of anger. In time to see Jennifer, who had been composed to hear of Darien and tautly silent as Dave spoke, now rise at Jaelle's words, a white grief in her face, her mouth open, eyes blazing with naked pain, and Paul realized that if she was opening now to this, she was open to everything. An urge to strike this ever-present, ever-placid child rose fiercely within him. There was a great difficulty in his throat, and his eyes were stinging. He looked at the small things he had worn then he put on some of Finn's clothing and went away. ![]() He wasn't strong enough to do it so soon. He tried to make himself into a bird again but he couldn't. What did such things matter now? They shall not grow old, as we that are left. Paul sank into a chair, uncaring, for once, that Jaelle should see him as less than strong. Liane saw him on the street and she says"-Dave fought for control-"she says he was very sure, and that he looked he looked" "And so, in the middle of the banquet that night, Kevin walked out. But then they had heard sounds outside and people at the door, and Dave Martyniuk and Jaelle herself had come in and told them what had happened to make the winter end. She had listened, remote and regal, virtually untouched. They were in the Temple in Paras Derval: Jennifer's rooms. Paul turned his back on them all and walked to the window. Someone in the hallway moved to block the way. "Leila," said Jaelle wearily, "close the door and go away."ĭave stood to follow, awkward sorrow investing his square features. At the going down of the sun and in the morning His heart wasn't going to be able to keep up. So completely so, he couldn't even grasp how such a thing could come to pass. But now-now everything had been changed, the metaphor made achingly real. I don't know if this is of aid to you, but I offer it as true." She said, "He could not have done this, not have been found worthy, had he not been traveling toward the Goddess all his life. It was very quiet behind him, and he wondered if they had gone. ![]()
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