Wild Bill’s Brawl With Custer’s Troopers

Exactly what happened in that Hays City saloon remains a mystery, but details have since emerged about the two 7th Cavalry troopers shot by Deputy U.S. Marshal Hickok. For a brief stint in 1869 James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok was sheriff of Ellis County, Kansas. A year later, in July 1870, Deputy U.S. Marshal Hickok …

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