The HBO Series begins right after Wild Bill was killed. Good show.
Sorry, the HBO series Deadwood...
"The HBO Series begins right after Wild Bill was killed. Good show.
Actually, it begins a few days before, and Keith Carradine does a great job bringing Hickok to life.
The show follows the story rather loosely, but it's close enough to get the flavor of what it must have been like.
My family has a personal connection to Wild Bill. My Great-Great-Great Uncle was Ned Buntline (his pen name). Buntline was the dime novel author who discovered and made famous a man named William Cody. He stumbled across Cody when passing through Fort McPherson on one of his temperance lecture tours. He heard Hickok was in McPherson and wanted to meet him with the hope of writing a story about him (he had read a popular story about Hickok previously that circulated in Harpers Magazine). He surprised Hickok rudely in a saloon. By that time, Hickok had an aversion to surprises and beckoned Buntline to leave at the point of a gun. Buntline still wanted to write his story, and set out looking for Hickok's friends. That's how he met Cody. After spending a few days with Cody and riding with him on a scout, Buntline figured a story about him would be a better one and the rest is history.
Hitckock (Carradine) appeared in 5 episodes.