The only seat available when he joined the poker game was a chair that put his back to a door. Hickok, as a precaution, usually sat with his back to the wall. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory. On August 2, 1876, Hickok was playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. When later recounting his exploits to audiences, he claimed that his nickname until 1861 had been 'Shanghai Bill.' Hickok might have killed 100 men during his life in gun fights.

Army during the Utah War.[Ībout 1861 Hickok grew a mustache and began calling himself 'Wild Bill'. While a Jayhawker, he met 12-year-old William Cody (later known as 'Buffalo Bill') who, despite his age, was a scout for the U.S. Mistakenly thinking he had killed Hudson, Hickok fled and joined General Jim Lane's vigilante 'Free State Army' (or Jayhawkers, also known as the 'Red Legs').

In 1855, at age 18, Hickok moved to Leavenworth in Kansas Territory following a fight with Charles Hudson, which resulted in both falling into a canal. Hickok was a good shot from a very young age and was recognized locally as an outstanding marksman with a pistol. His birthplace is now the Wild Bill Hickok Memorial, a listed historic site under the supervision of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Gun fighter and lawman Wild Bill Hickock was born in the small town Homer, Illinois in LaSalle County (now Troy Grove, Illinois) on May 27, 1837.

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