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Another man who gained even greater notoriety than Slade was "Wild Bill" Hickock, a tall, yellow-haired giant who had done splendid service as a scout in the western sector of the Civil War. "Wild Bill" I had known since 1857.
Crook's ambulance to Fort Fetterman where I laid in the hospital for fourteen days. When able to ride I started for Fort Laramie where I met Wm. Hickock, better known as Wild Bill, and we started for Deadwood, where we arrived about June.
The sheriff assumed control clear headed, and accustomed to that sort of thing calling in Hickock and his deputies to assist, and fairly combing the town from one end to the other. Not a rat could have slipped unobserved through the net he dragged down that long street, or its intersecting alleys but it was without result; nowhere was there found a trace of either the gambler or his companion.
He'd clean out this house if we ran in a cold deck on a friend o' his." "What do I care for what your marshal does?" "But he's Bill Hickock, Miss, 'Wild Bill." Miss Maclaire leaned back against the stair-rail, her eyes turning from Tommy to her speechless supporters. Slowly the truth seemed to penetrate her brain. "Oh," she gasped at last. "Then then what else can you give me?"
I rather reckon you can take care of yourself, but if you need me, old boy I'm always right here on the job. You know that." "I do, Bill, and appreciate it." The group about the motionless body fell away, and made room for the marshal, the last man to rise saying soberly: "He's dead all right, Hickock. I guess he never knew what hit him. Good shootin', too, dark as it is here."
"Well, if I have, Bill," and Keith's lips were set tight, "I'm not liable to tell you. If it's the lad I think likely, I'll attend to the case myself. You understand this is my personal affair." Hickock nodded, his hand again pressing the other's shoulder "Sure, Jack, if you feel that way. There's enough in Sheridan to keep a marshal reasonably busy, without dippin' into private matters.
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"Here, Jack," he said, gravely, "you better try you might know him." Keith bent over, and looked down. As he did so his heart seemed to rise choking into his throat, and a blur obscured his sight. He swept a hand over his eyes and dropped on his knees into the mud beside the body, staring speechless into the white face, the sightless eyes. Hickock watching him closely, and gripped his arm.
Pony riders often alternated "runs" with each other over their respective divisions in the same manner as do railroad train crews at the present time. "Wild Bill" Hickock was one of the most noted gun fighters that the West ever produced.
Such were the members of the McCandless gang, which Hickock disposed of so thoroughly. All along the stage route were robbers and man-killers far more vicious than the Indians. Very early in my career as a frontiersman I had an encounter with a party of these from which I was extremely fortunate to escape with my life.
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