Comments. It was a box-office bomb, grossing $2.1 million on a budget of $30 million, and received mixed reviews from critics. Hill was unhappy with the way the film was released. [62][63] Hickok may have told his friend Charlie Utter and others who were traveling with them that he thought he would be killed while in Deadwood. One of the workers, Joseph McLintock, wrote a detailed description of the reinterment. And that's about it: he beat up all Read allHickok rode Buckshot while 300-pound Jingles rode Joker. The bear attacked, crushing Hickok with its body. Teens who join the Pony Express include a young Wild Bill Hickok and 'Billy' Cody (who grew up to be Buffalo Bill). [f], The regular county election was held on November 2, 1869. He also appeared in Massacre River (1949) and Drums in the Deep South (1951). Hardin alleged that when his cousin, Mannen Clements, was jailed for the killing of two cowhands (Joe and Dolph Shadden) in July 1871, Hickokat Hardin's requestarranged for his escape. Jack delays killing Bill because he isn't sure how he wants to do it. Hickok managed to fire another shot, wounding the bear's paw. Witnesses confirm that the story was true to the extent the party had set out to find whoever had killed the four men,[e] but the group returned to the fort "without nary a dead Indian, [never] even seeing a live one". He told Clemmons (Hardin) to stay out of trouble in Abilene and asked him to hand over his guns, and Hardin complied. On his appointment as Marshal of Abilene, Hickok asks what happened to the previous Marshal to which the Mayor replies "He resigned." The incident helped contribute to the overall failure of the show. Producer Richard Zanuck said, "If you make a good picture and have a compelling story to tell, it's going to work. Good bye, Colorado Charlie, C. H. Utter. B. Hickock [sic] (Wild Bill) formerly of Cheyenne, Wyoming. He seemed to have respect for Hickok's abilities and replied, "If Bill needs killing, why don't you kill him yourself? Hickok lost a gold watch to Tutt in a poker game. Under the name "Wild Bill Hitchcock" [sic], the article recounted the "hundreds" of men whom Hickok had personally killed and other exaggerated exploits. In 1944, Madison was visiting Hollywood on leave when his boyish good looks and physique caught the eye of Henry Willson, the head of talent at David O. Selznick's newly formed Vanguard Pictures. He had been a marshal in Hays City, and then Abilene, Kansas, gaining a reputation as a man who could pacify an untamed community. The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs; black aces and eights. "They had sex appeal. In a flashback, Bill and his friend California Joe come upon an Indian burial structure with a lone warrior sitting atop it. While delivering his own brand of frontier justice, the infamous gunfighter's reputation as the fastest draw in the west is put to the test.Legendary lawman and gunslinger, Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the west. [23] He is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California. ", Hermon, Gregory (1987). Wild Bill Hickok died in 1876, at age 39 in Deadwood, S.D., where he was shot in the back of the head by an angry poker player. Not a word was uttered. Many historic sites and monuments commemorate his life, and he has been depicted numerous times in literature, film, and television. By what name was Hickok (2017) officially released in India in English? Prairie Schooners is a 1940 American Western film directed by Sam Nelson, which stars Wild Bill Elliott as Hickok. 2023 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [9], At the time of his death, Hickok was wearing a Smith & Wesson Model No. [citation needed], On August 1, 1876, Hickok was playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. Since he was actually shot in the back of the head, that plot element is a complete artifice of the episode writers. Hickok remained in Hays through August 1868, when he brought 200 Cheyenne Indians to Hays to be viewed by "excursionists". [40]:192, On July 17, 1870, Hickok was attacked by two troopers from the 7th U.S. Cavalry, Jeremiah Lonergan and John Kyle (sometimes spelled Kile),[42] in a saloon. The new trial was held in Yankton, the capital of the Dakota Territory. At the end of the trial, Judge Sempronius H. Boyd told the jury they could not find Hickok acted in self-defense if he could have reasonably avoided the fight. Despite Charley trying to apologize for Bill and the mob harassing him, Jack does not relent. Nowadays, though, his place of birth is called Troy Grove. [7] Photographs of Hickok appear to depict dark hair, but all contemporaneous descriptions affirm that it was red. He was assigned Buffalo Bill Cody, a sergeant, and five privates. After touring the country in a Wild West show with the likes of Buffalo Bill Cody, Hickok drifted from place to place, drinking heavily and gambling even more. [25][26]:136 Hickok had not been paid for some time, and was hired as a scout by General John B. Sanborn by early 1865. Jeff Bridges and Ellen Barkin signed to star. Actor By Action Role. James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 - August 2, 1876), also known as "Wild Bill" Hickok was a legendary figure in the old west. Also in 1995, he's depicted as a character in an episode of Legend (TV series) by William Russ, possibly most famous for his role in Wiseguy (TV series). The town of Deadwood, South Dakota, re-enacts Hickok's murder and McCall's capture every summer evening. Hickok moved to Leavenworth in the Kansas Territory, where he joined Jim Lane's Free State Army (also known as the Jayhawkers), an antislavery vigilante group active in the new territory during the Bleeding Kansas era. [9], Shortly before his death, Hickock wrote a letter to his new wife, which read in part, "Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wifeAgnesand with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore. In the film version, Howard Keel co-stars as Hickok to Doris Day's Calamity Jane. [28] Strawhun "made remarks against Hickok", and Hickok killed him with a shot through the head. was advancing on him with a drawn pistol and that Tutt had previously made threats of personal injury to Deft. He claimed he was avenging Hickok's earlier slaying of his brother, which may have been true; a man named Lew McCall had indeed been killed by an unknown lawman in Abilene, Kansas, but whether or not the two McCall men were related is unknown. | Wayne Moseley was an actor, using the stage name Wayne Mallory.[2]. He is chiefly portrayed as a protagonist, although historical accounts of his actions are often controversial, and much of his career is known to have been exaggerated both by himself and by contemporary mythmakers. Hickok is a playable character in the 2018 board game Deadwood 1876 by Faade Games. Wild Bill is a 1995 American acid Western film about the last days of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok. The original wooden grave marker was moved to the new site, but by 1891, it had been destroyed by souvenir hunters whittling pieces from it, and it was replaced with a statue. On July 21, 1865, the two men faced off in Springfield's town square, standing sideways before drawing and firing their weapons. [21] Hickok subsequently visited McCanles' widow, apologized for the killing, and offered her $35 in restitution, all the money he had with him at the time. In 1860, Hickok was badly injured by a bear, while driving a freight team from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCanles may have been the first man Hickok killed. "[citation needed]. Legendary lawman and gunslinger, Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the west. He then joined General James Henry Lane's Kansas Brigade, and while serving with the brigade, saw his friend Buffalo Bill Cody, who was serving as a scout. [82], At the time of this affair I was at a station farther west and reached this station just as Wild Bill was getting ready to go to Beatrice for his trial. 13 Episodes 1953. See production, box office & company info. "Figures like Wild Bill were like rock stars," said Lili Zanuck. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. While Hickok claimed to have killed numerous named and unnamed gunmen in his lifetime, his career as a gunfighter only lasted from 1861 to 1871. A monument has been built there. Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876), lawman, gunfighter and gambler, of the American Wild West has been depicted many times and in many forms of media. James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 - August 2, 1876), better known as " Wild Bill " Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. By then both famous and infamous, he was widely known as . [54], Charles Snyder, the Lucien Howe Librarian of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, said "Granular conjunctivitis, ophtalmia, trachomacall it what you willwas common on the Western Frontier. Picks on rebels, especially Texans, to kill." "Dead man's hand" was an established poker. [21][22] Hickok, Wellman, and another employee, J.W. Jean Yarbrough. Jack and his posse enter the saloon and apprehend Jane, Bill, Joe, and Charley. [58] Jane confirmed this account in an 1896 newspaper interview, although she claimed she had been hospitalized with illness rather than in the guardhouse. He twice asked another man at the table, Charles Rich, to change seats with him, but Rich refused. Madison was born January 19, 1922, in Pumpkin Center, California. Plot At Wild Bill Hickok's funeral, his friend Charley Prince recalls Hickok's final days in Deadwood. [6] Since the event was outdoors, he could not compel people to pay, and the venture was a financial failure. There, a young drifter named Jack McCall declares that he will be the man to kill Hickok. Disappointing is a word I would normally use when discovering a below par movie, but I did not expect much from this movie to begin with so the bar was set quiet low in my expectation. [46]:pp.5456[47], In August 1871, Hickok sought to arrest Hardin for killing Charles Couger in an Abilene hotel "for snoring too loud". Calamity Jane is reputed to have led a mob that threatened McCall with lynching, but at the time of Hickok's death, Jane was actually being held by military authorities.