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Wild Bill

Hickok

6th Cousin

3 times removed

Common Ancestor

Father: Samuel Bullen
Burgate, Suffolk, England
1622 - 1692

Mother: Mary Morse
Burgate, Suffolk, England
1620 - 1692

Born: Died:
27 May 1837 2 August 1876
Homer, Illinois Deadwood, Dakota Territory

James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok,
was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his
work across the frontier as a drover, wagon master,
soldier, spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler,
showman, and actor. He earned a great deal of notoriety
in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many
outlandish and often fabricated tales that he told about
his life. Some contemporaneous reports of his exploits
are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of
much of his fame and reputation, along with his own
stories.

Hickok was born and raised on a farm in
northern Illinois at a time when lawlessness
and vigilante activity were occurring because of the
influence of the "Banditti of the Prairie". Hickok was
drawn to this ruffian lifestyle and 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. 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. Over the course
of his life, he was involved in several notable shoot-outs. In 1876, Hickok was shot from behind and
killed while playing poker in saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory by Jack McCall, an unsuccessful

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