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  ipedia.com: Wild Bill Hickok Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
James Butler Hickok (May 27,1837–August 2,1876) was better known as Wild Bill Hickok.
In 1871, Hickok became marshal of Abilene, Texas.
The saloon proprietor claimed that, at the time of his death, Hickok held a pair of Aces and a pair of eights, all cards fl, which has since been known as a dead man's hand.
www.ipedia.com /wild_bill_hickok.html   (288 words)

  
 Wild Bill Hickok stories of American Folklore
James Butler Hickok (May 27,1837-August 2,1876) was better known as Wild Bill Hickok.
In 1876, while playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota, Hickok was shot dead by Jack McCall, who thought that Hickok shot McCall's brother in Kansas.
At the time of his death, Hickok held a pair of Aces and a pair of eights, which has since been known as a dead man's hand.
myth.web-indexes.com /american-folklore/Wild-Bill-Hickok.html   (255 words)

  
 Andy Devine
His notable roles included ten films as sidekick to Roy Rogers, a Shakespeare performance in Romeo and Juliet in 1937, Stagecoach with John Wayne in 1939 and a reunion with Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in 1959.
He is well-remembered for his role as Jingles in the US radio and TV series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951).
When asked if he had strange nodes on his vocal chords, Devine replied, "I've got the same nodes as Bing Crosby, but his are in tune."
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andy_devine.html   (240 words)

  
 Excerpts from The Church of Scientology, by Gordon Melton
He remained in California to work on two additional serials produced by Columbia, The Mysterious Pilot and The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, and on The Spider Returns, an early super hero adventure done by Warner Brothers.
Though writing consumed his time, Hubbard never lost his adventurous spirit, and, with war already a reality in Europe, he found new uses for his interests.
In 1940 he was elected a member of the Explorers Club and in June sailed under its banner as head of the Alaskan Radio Experimental Expedition.
www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/scientology.htm   (4261 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Cowboys, Ranchers and The Wild West
Some of the more important men are Bloody Bill Anderson, George Todd, Frank James, Jesse James and Cole Younger.
FrontierTimes - Outlaws, Gunfighters-Gunslingers and Lawmen of the Wild West 
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