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The song's opening lines are: Oh! The Deadwood Stage is a-rollin' on over the plains, with the curtains flappin' and the driver slappin' the reins. Beautiful sky! A wonderful day! Whip crack-away!, Whip crack-away!, Whip crack-away! It goes on to contain a macabre line about Wild Bill Hickok, "on his gun there's more than twenty-seven notches". [4]
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights.
Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West. By tradition, the American flag flies over the cemetery 24 hours a day, rather than merely from sunrise to sunset. [1]
It was also a place where Wild Bill Hickok like to kick back at the saloon during his stint as town marshal. Visitors can get a sense for the town's lawless history at Old Abilene Town, where you ...
The biography documents the life of James Butler Hickok, more commonly known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, from "cradle to grave," Crease said. Based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina but originally from ...
Calamity Jane (A Musical Western) is a stage musical based on the historical figure of frontierswoman Calamity Jane.The non-historical, somewhat farcical plot involves the authentic Calamity Jane's professional associate Wild Bill Hickok, and presents the two as having a contentious relationship that ultimately proves to be a facade for mutually amorous feelings.
Wild Bill Hickok (1837–1876), folk hero of the American Old West; William L. Carlisle (1890–1964), train robber of the American West; Wild Bill Claiborne (1872–1933), American college football player; Bill Clinton, former United States president referred to by Donald Trump as "Wild Bill" William Cutolo (1949–1999), New York mobster
Hickok is in town with the Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West Show and is supposed to have hit a fellow actor. (Charges later are dropped.) Hickok gained national fame as the “two-gun marshal” in the ...