Show t I Wild Bills Bill's First Fight Fight I Wild Bill BUI whose real name was James Hickok first came West In 1857 51 and drove an ox team on the plains for Majors Russell In 1860 He subsequently engaged himself to the overland stage company as stock tender and was was' put In charge of a new stage station on Rock creek near the theold theold theold old station which which was generally known as Robbers' Robbers Roost This was the headquarters for the gang a crowd that had held together since the tho Missouri Kan sas border ruffian ruman days and generally had things their own way A man named Ficklin and II a number one stage hand was the superintendent He tried to buy buyout out the station but failing falling in this he built a an anew mew n new w one near by putting young Hickok Hie- Hie kok in charge Up to that time he had never experienced trouble with anyone and was wall not likely to have friction especially with the old station station station sta sta- tion keeper or his men I In the winter of 61 1860 I and his nephew and four other men men passed by the new station on horseback horseback horseback horse horse- back leading an old man who was afoot They had a a. rope around the theold theold old ld fellows fellow's neck and nd o occasionally they w would ld take a few few- turns around the horn of the saddle make a run on the rope and Jerk erk the old man down and drag dral him on the ground un un- til he was nearly dead The only spite they had bad against against him was as that he was wasa a North M o st preacher If Wild Bill BUI was anything he was an Abolitionist Abolition Abolition- and soller free-soller and loyal to the United States The crowd was wa planning to make a raid on several several sever sever- al stations to secure the stock and go South They told fold young Hickok they would take the stock He replied that i he would be there When they returned late in the evening two stopped at the corral two two went to the front and two to the tho back door of the cabin or hut Hickok told them he would shoot the first firstman firstman firstman man who took down the bars of ot the corral The elder fired at Hickok but missed him Hickok returned returned returned re re- turned the fire with a rifle rUle and shot ahot in the heart The next shot from Hickok killed the nephew and the tho two fell at the front door Just then the two at the back door opened i fire One shot from a double gun lodged seven grown full-grown buckshot i in Hickok's right side and breast two of which entered his lungs The two men who stopped at the corral came cameto cameto cameto to the assistance of ot the two men atthe atthe at atthe the house Hickok was then in a hand to fight fl t with ith four gur men e Ha He killed three of oi them em t in is the house and wounded the other so badly that he died on the prairie DenTer Denver Field and Farm |