The HBO Series begins right after Wild Bill was killed. Good show.
One account says McCall was acquitted, while the other says he was hung. Which one was it?
Never mind, the article actually answers my question. I guess double jeopardy was not in effect yet.
I have been to that bar several times.
On the wall is his ‘death chair’ with bullet holes in the back of the chair...
Shot in the head...holes in the back of the chair...
And even though he was a well-known prevaricator, no one every dubbed him “Lyin’ Bill”...
How these characters got their names is rather interesting.
William B Hickok had a protruding upper lip and people made fun of him by calling him “Duck Bill”. So he grew a mustache became good with a pistol and renamed himself Wild Bill.
According to Brummet Echohawk, Pawnee Indian artist, BUFFALO BILL got his name when while young and hunting buffalo for the railroad crews, he shot a bull, the bull then gored his horse and afoot Bill took off running for one skinny tree on the high plains.
Later, when a cavalry patrol found him the bull was still underneath waiting on Bill so they shot the bull and killed it. Then they hoorahed Bill and named him “Buffalo Bill” because he had been buffaloed by a buffalo.
He later took to the name and made a legend out of buffalo hunting, quietly discarding his being buffaloed by a buffalo.
I read an article many years go which stated the bullet that killed Hickok went through his head and lodged in the hand of the man across from him.
A western writer years later mad much of the fact he had the honor of shaking the hand that still held the bullet that killed Wild Bill.
I read way too many western magazines and Old West history books in my youth.