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"Wild Bill" Hickok, born May 27,1837, died August 2, 1876. Killed while playing poker.

James Butler Hickok, ca 1874 He was known as "Wild Bill Hickok", a legend of the American Old West.

William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, age nineteen, c. 1865. Handsome.

William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, age nineteen, c. (Buffalo Bill Historical Center) Reminds me of Dad.we used to call him Wild Bill Cody since his name was Bill.

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Robert LeRoy Parker (April 1866 – November better known as Butch Cassidy,was a notorious American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch Gang in the American Old West. (Sure doesn't look like Paul Newman)

Wild Bill Hickok

a folk hero of the American Old West. Wallpaper and background photos of James Butler Hickok -Wild Bill Hickok(May 1837 – August 1876 for fans of Celebrities who died young images.

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Bass Reeves , was the man who the legend of the Lone Ranger was written about ... Not surprisingly, was written out, or purposely overlooked in histories of the West, by historians, until recently, and who was the subject of a long overdue book written a few years years ago by Art Burton, titled Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves.

Real-Life Django, Bass Reeves: The legendary African-American Wild West marshal who arrested outlaws and killed 14 men Bass Reeves was born a slave in 1838 and later broke from his owner to live among Native Americans Reeves became a Deputy U.

Wild Bill Hickok

Wild Bill Hickok

Born: James Butler Hickok ~ May 1837 In Troy Grove, Illinois. Died: August 1876 (aged In Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Cause of death: Murdered by Jack McCall Resting place: Mount Moriah Cemetery.

The girl with the tattooed face became something of a legend, but she started out as an ordinary girl. Olive Oatman and her younger sister, Mary Ann, were kidnapped by Indians in 1851. They eventually ended up living with a tribe of the Mojave, where they were both tattooed with distinctive blue markings on their… Read more

The story of Olive Oatman. Her family was murdered Olive was sold to another tribe and it is they who tattooed her chin and arms. Olive was rescued when word of a white girl reached an army outpost. Her freedom bought with blankets and other trade items.

Butch Cassidy, a vastly misunderstood guy
James Butler Hickok (5/27/1837 – 8/2/1876)—'Wild Bill' Hickok—was a folk character of the American Old West. Hickok was born & raised on a farm in rural Illinois. He went west at age 18 as a fugitive from justice, first working as a stagecoach driver, then as a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas & Nebraska. He fought (& spied) for the Union Army during the Civil War & gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, actor & professional gambler. (V)
first white women in U.S. was tattooed by Indians after be captured by Indians. The tattoo is called "dirty mouth" meaning she slept around name Olive Oatman, 1858. After her family was killed by Yavapais Indians, on a trip West in the eighteen-fifties, she was adopted and raised by Mohave Indians, who gave her a traditional tribal tattoo. When she was ransomed back, at age nineteen, she became a celebrity. Photograph courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, 1927.

Olive Oatman was the first white tattooed woman in the history of the United States. ~ Olive Oatman was 13 when she travelled from Illinois to California with her Mormon family.

Robert Lincoln, son of Pres. Abraham Lincoln. One day as he was preparing to board a train, it suddenly lurched and Lincoln fell between the train and track. Before he was injured, he was pulled to safety by Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth, who soon after shot and killed Robert's father, the President.

Robert Lincoln was waiting to board a crowded train when he fell between the train and the platform. He was not harmed due to being pulled to safety by Edwin Booth, brother of the man that a short time later would kill Robert's father, Abraham Lincoln

(Civil War Major General) James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States, as a (very good-looking) young man....he served under General William Stark Rosecrans.

(Civil War Major General) James A. Garfield, President of the United States. Photographic reproduction of a portrait of future President James A. Garfield at the time of his marriage in

Abraham Lincoln & Mary (his wife) were married ... 11-4-1842 ... Springfield, Ill. (:

Abe Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln's wedding day photograph taken November 1842 in Springfield, Illinois after three years of a stormy courtship and a broken engagement. Their love had endured.

Martha Jane Cannary - Calamity Jane

Martha Jane Cannary b May in Princeton, Missouri, otherwise known as Calamity Jane, Scout for General Crook

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