Show wild bills first fight wild bill whose real name was james hickok first came west in 1857 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 put in charge of a new stage station on bock creek near the old mckandles las station which was generally known as robbers boost this was the headquarters for the mckandles las gang a crowd that had held together since the missouri kan sas border ruffian days and generally had things their own way A man named and number one stag hand was the superintendent he tried to buy out the mckandles las station but failing in this he built a new one near by putting young hie kok in charge up to that time he had never experienced trouble with anyone and was not likely to haie friction especially with the old sta tion keeper mckandles las or his men in the winter of 1860 61 mckandles las and his nephew acid tour other men passed by the new sta ion on horse back leading an old man who was afoot they had a rope around the old fellow s neck and occasionally they would take a few turns around the horn of the saddle make a run on the rope and jerk the old man down and drag him on the ground un til he was nearly dead the only spit they had him was that he was a methodist preacher if wild bill was an thing he was an abolition 1st and free boiler and loyal to the united states the mckandles las crowd was planning to make a raid on sever al stations to secure the stock and go south they told oung hickok they would tal e the stock he replied that he would be there when they returned late in the evening two stopped at the corral two went to the front and two to the back door of the cabin or hut hickok told them he would shoot the first man who took down the bars of the corral the elder McK endIas fired at dickol but missed him hickok re turned the fire with a rifle and shot mckandles las in the heart the neit shot from hickok billed the nephew and the two fell at the front door just then the two at the back door opened fire one shot from a double gun lodged seven full grown buckshot in hickok s right side and breast two of which entered his lungs the two men who stopped at the corral came to the assistance as istance of the two men at the house hickok was then in a hand to band fight with four men he killed three of them in the house and wounded the other so badly that he d ed on the prairie denver field and farm |