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Wild Bill Hickok’s Bride and a Circus License Mystery
In Cincinnati's United States Playing Card Co museum a marriage certificate and Wild Bill Hickok’s letters reveal his 1876 Cheyenne marriage to Agnes Lake Thatcher. A circus owner’s license controversy in Hays City and a note from Hickok's wife accompany a hair keepsake sent to Emma Hickok.
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Museum of the United States Playing Card Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Wild Bill Hickok
James Butler Hickok
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Agnes L. Thatcher
T. W . Warren
M E. Church
Minnie Moyer
S L. Moyer
Dead Wood
Black Hills
Dacota
Agnes
Emma
Wild Bill
Deadwood
Calamity Jane
Wyo
Janesa William Buell
Lake
Hays City
Bill
Bill Lake
Granby
Missouri
Jake Killian
Uke
Council of Four
Bil
Mrs. Lake
California Joe
Wachitas
Mrs Lake
Texas
Jack Omohundre
Buffalo Bill Cody
Ned Buntline
Scouts of the Plains
Rochester
N. Y
Luke
L. S. Meyer Hickok
Buell
J. B. Hickok
Agnes Lake Thatcher
W F Warren
Charlie” Utter
Dick” Seymour
Custer
Cincinnati Museum
Jack Crawford
Virginia Evening Chronicle
Will Bill
Jack McCall
Captain Jack
Colorado