Lindsey Graham
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15,077 appearances
196 recordings
52 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 16 Sep
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Hickok was supposed to be maintaining law and order, but more often than not, his reputation as a deadly quick-draw seemed to attract trouble as fast as he could contain it.
Hickok had grown up on a farm in Illinois, restless and drawn to adventure from an early age.
After leaving home as a young man, he traveled west to Missouri and Kansas.
Along the way, he worked at various jobs, including as a farmer, a stagecoach driver, and a lawman.
But it was his skill with a gun that would come to define him.
In 1865 in Springfield, Missouri, 28-year-old Hickok shot a man dead in the middle of the street in a dispute over money.
It was the first recorded quick-draw duel on the frontier, and journalists and pulp novelists seized on the story, turning Hickok into a legend, the coolest head and the fastest draw in the West.
But the same reputation that made Hickok famous made him a target, and it would follow him to the end of his life.
This is Episode 2 of our five-part series on Frontier Legends, Wild Bill Hickok.
James Butler Hickok was born on May 27, 1837, in Homer, Illinois.
He was the fourth surviving child of William Hickok, a farmer, and his wife, Polly.
The Hickocks had deep moral convictions and were ardent abolitionists.
Their farm served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, hiding escaped slaves as they made their way to freedom in Canada.
But in 1852, just before James turned 15, his father, William, died suddenly.
This left James and his three older brothers responsible for running the family farm, while their mother, Polly, looked after James' two younger sisters.
From a young age, James had been fascinated by guns, even saving up to buy a rifle as a child.
He spent hours in the woods practicing his marksmanship and learning how to shoot equally well with both hands.
As a teenager, he used these skills to bring home wild game for the family to eat.
A few years after William's death, James's mother, Polly, decided that the family should relocate to Kansas, where land was cheaper.
She, like many others at the time, thought that they could start over in the West.
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