http://www.thehistorybluff.com/?p=883 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:36:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.thehistorybluff.com/?p=883&cpage=1#comment-330 TheHistoryBluff Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:23:24 +0000 http://www.thehistorybluff.com/?p=883#comment-330 It is quite possible, Skeptic. When a story is altered immediately after its occurrence, very few, if any, accounts exist that tell the tale as it truly happened. What you know of Wild Bill Hickok's death is the story that has been passed down through generations - very little of that story is true. It is quite possible, Skeptic. When a story is altered immediately after its occurrence, very few, if any, accounts exist that tell the tale as it truly happened. What you know of Wild Bill Hickok's death is the story that has been passed down through generations – very little of that story is true.

]]> http://www.thehistorybluff.com/?p=883&cpage=1#comment-331 TheCuriousSkeptic Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:08:45 +0000 http://www.thehistorybluff.com/?p=883#comment-331 Now, I'm something of a Western Historian myself, and I know that I've read literally dozens of accounts of Wild Bill Hickok's death. and it's a well known fact that Jack McCall was actually the one who killed Wild Bill. The two men weren't even playing together - McCall was at a different table, saw Hickok, and killed him for his own reasons before being chased down and killed several days later. Surely there is no way that every historian to date has overlooked your account! Or is there? Now, I'm something of a Western Historian myself, and I know that I've read literally dozens of accounts of Wild Bill Hickok's death. and it's a well known fact that Jack McCall was actually the one who killed Wild Bill. The two men weren't even playing together – McCall was at a different table, saw Hickok, and killed him for his own reasons before being chased down and killed several days later. Surely there is no way that every historian to date has overlooked your account! Or is there?

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