Wild Bill’s Fight With Ten Bad Men
A fragmentary tale from Buffalo Bill's Tales of the Plains recalling Wild Bill Hickok in his forties, tall and fearless, famed for fighting criminals in Kansas and stoking law and order. The battered recollection mentions his height, rivals, jailer death, and clashes with “bad men” during his era.
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Buffalo Bill
Ald
Bill
W. F. Cody
United States
Galmry
Ois
Kans
Hickok holds off gang in prairie cabin ambush
In a tense frontier clash near Port Hayes, Bill Hickok repels an ambush by Jake McCandles and his gang. Despite multiple wounds, Hickok fights through a smoky room using a rifle and two revolvers, killing ten attackers before escaping on his horse Mack Nell to the fort.
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Aberlin
Jake McCandles
Bhai
Hickok
Port Hayes
Mel Candles
McCandice
Bill
Buck
Paul Jones
Desperado
Hill
Mack Nell
Hill Hickok
Congressman Heflin Faces Trial For Streetcar Shooting
Congressman James Thomas Heflin of Alabama must stand trial on three counts for shooting Lewis Lundy and Thomas McCreary aboard a Philadelphia streetcar weeks ago. Heflin says Lundy was noisy after an argument and he drew his revolver after being provoked.
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United Press
Washington
James Thomas Heflin
Alabama
Lewis Lundy
Thomas McCreary
Pennsylvania
Heflin
Ravenna Park Purchase Discussed by City Officials
The city will consider buying Ravenna park with A Warren Gould of the women's club appointed committee to advocate the purchase leading the discussion at the Commercial club meeting tonight in the old MacDougall Southwick building rooms.
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Ravenna Park
A. Warren Gould
Women's Clube
Commercial Club
MacDougall & Southwick
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