Talk:Wild Bill Hickok

calcification

cite the source on petrification, or be ommitted. 75.168.92.226 (talk) 20:15, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

That paragraph is sourced to Rosa, Joseph G. (1979). They Called Him Wild Bill. University Press of Oklahoma. p. 305. Do you have reason to believe that is inaccurate or that there is a contradicting source? Thanks,  SchreiberBike | ⌨  21:44, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

FYI Rosa is notorious for often being wrong and stretching the truth. Use with caution. GenQuest ^"scribble" 07:23, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

'FYI'?, please provide some information then. Maybe update Rosa's page with source's... 2A02:C7E:284C:7B00:47E:42:FBAF:E3A1 (talk) 02:39, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

The most recent biography of Hickok, Tom Clavin's "Wild Bill: The true story of the American frontier's first gunfighter" (St. Martin's Press, New York, 2019) makes no mention whatsoever of any alleged petrification. While Clavin reports Utter's return three years after Hickok's burial to supervise the movement of the body, there is no trustworthy evidence that the coffin was opened. The Coronado Mercury edition of 17 May 1888 (almost ten years after the reburial) reported that it had been opened, but cited no sources. Jesseallenchampion (talk) 11:32, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

wow

you can read the shock i had when i saw wild bill was connected to buffalo bill and john wesley hardin 2600:1700:9F60:8B80:809F:3D4:7EBE:9E7C (talk) 08:42, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Two new sources

I added two new reference books to this article: Tom Clavin's "Wild Bill: The true story of the American frontier's first gunfighter" and Linda Fisher and Carrie Bower's biography of Hickok's widow, Agnes Lake: "Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend". Jesseallenchampion (talk) 11:15, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Corrections to date and title of show

Corrected date and title of Hickok's creation of his Niagara Falls show, "The Daring Buffalo Chase of the Plains". The show was created in 1872, after his tenure as town marshal of Abilene, Kansas, and after meeting his future wife, circus proprietor Agnes Lake. Jesseallenchampion (talk) 11:17, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Added info on Hickok's wife

Added reference material and information on Agnes Thatcher Lake, Hickok's wife. Jesseallenchampion (talk) 11:34, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Red hair

If he was of English descent he could not have had red hair. (Aardi18 (talk) 17:58, 11 October 2023 (UTC))

Because? Invertzoo (talk) 21:37, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Hickock (sic)

Gravestone showing misspelling

It appears that Utter misspelled Wild Bill's name as Hickock. I think the way to go is to use the spelling almost certainly used and to mark it with {{sic}} templates. If there's no objection here, I'll make that correction at Charlie Utter too. SchreiberBike | ⌨  10:41, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

“Little Big Man” and Hickok

The character of Wild Bill Hickok features prominently in the 1969 movie “Little Big Man” starring Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway among other stars. He is played by Jeff Corey. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Thomas Berger in which Hickok is a major character interacting with the protagonist. ~2026-45469-7 (talk) 15:20, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Please don't put something up as fact, just because you see it elsewhere. That is how these failures occours.

On this Wikipedia "Wild Bill" Hickok site, you put up a picture, and you claim it is John Wesley Hardin, only, it is not. It is a photograph of Jack Helm, and not only is it of Jack Helm, it is pretty widely known, that the picture is infact of John Jackson Helm. ~2026-21093-09 (talk) 10:56, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Can you give a reliable source indicating the above? There is a lot of mixed information on the internet that gets repeated, so we need an authoritative reliable source. The Texas State Historical Association uses this picture on their article about Hardin. Is that not a reliable source? SchreiberBike | ⌨  21:10, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Cattle rustling and outlaw?

Why is Hickok described as a rustler and his early life mentions being on the run from the law? There's no further mention in the article of either of these things and I can't find any basis for this.

He followed due process and was exonerated for all his killings. At no point was he on the run from the law. ~2026-34103-96 (talk) 14:48, 9 June 2026 (UTC)