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"Perceiving clearly that I represent a minority view," said Mr. Hickok, "I request the director who nominated Mr. Queed to withdraw his name. I think it proper that our action should be unanimous. But I will say, frankly, that if Mr. Queed's name remains before the board, I shall vote for him, since I consider him from every point of view the man for the position." Mr.
Young Hickok ducked under the muzzle of the nearest weapon, and its flame seared his long hair as he swung for the bearer's mid-section with all the weight of his body behind the blow. Whirling with the swiftness of a fighting cat he spurned the senseless outlaw with his boot and "threw down" on McCandless.
Hickok, "it appears to be the reluctant duty of the nominator to withdraw Mr. West's name." But the brilliant young man's name, once thrown into the arena, could no more be withdrawn than the fisherman of legend could restore the genie to the bottle, or Pandora get her pretty gifts back into the box again. There was the idea, fairly out and vastly alluring. The kindly directors pressed it home.
His real name was James B. Hickok; he afterwards became famous as "Wild Bill, the Scout of the Plains" though why he was so called I never could ascertain and from this time forward I shall refer to him by his popular nickname. He was ten years my senior a tall, handsome, magnificently built and powerful young fellow, who could out-run, out-jump and out-fight any man in the train.
They performed what is probably the most daring exploit in the history of transportation. The story of their venture bristles with action; it is adorned by such names as Wild Bill Hickok, Pony Bob Haslam, Buffalo Bill, and Colonel Alexander Majors. Colonel Majors held the broadhorn record on the old Santa Fé trail, ninety-two days on the round trip with oxen.
It deals with the cotton culture and the cotton Trade. Hart, A.B. The Southern South. Henson, Josiah. The Life of Josiah Henson. Hershaw, L.M. Peonage in the United States. This is one of the American Negro Academy Papers. Hickok, Charles Thomas. The Negro in Ohio, 1802-1870.
So young James Hickok shut his teeth against the weakness which was creeping over him and lined his sights on the last of his enemies; for the man whom he had felled with his fist and he with the broken arm had escaped some time during the latter progress of the fight.
To describe the life of one Western town marshal, himself the best and most picturesque of them all, is to cover all this field sufficiently. There is but one man who can thus be chosen, and that is Wild Bill Hickok, better known for a generation as "Wild Bill," and properly accorded an honorable place in American history.
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