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By PokerStarsDirect On February 17, 2008 Under Poker Supplies

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James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok favorite handguns were a pair of elegant engraved, ivory-handled 1851 Colt Navy cap and ball .36 caliber revolvers. The cylinders of your Colts were recorded with a naval battle scene between Texas and Mexico. Cap was on, open-top bags that allowed the Colts to take overlapping and forward rotation (called the reverse or "plain" tie), or with a hand cross draw.

Must have been a detention hearing, which has two platform sheath with ivory-handled Colts, a long dress coat and wide brimmed hat. Over six feet tall, his mustache was broad-shouldered, with long reddish blond hair.

Unlike many lawmen and gunslingers of the Old West that won most of his fame long after his time on earth had happened, Hickock was legendary as the fastest man and deadly in the West for his own life. His reputation as a soft-spoken and courteous gentleman, but would respond with deadly force if is attacked or insulted. However, the tales of his exploits in the newspapers and novelists dime were greatly exaggerated. Instead of the hundred "Badman" is said to have sent his lightning-fast draw and aim, the total was less than ten.

The numbers may have been exaggerated, but his condition a quick and deadly gunman apparently plains were not. Many, many credible eyewitness accounts, including General George Custer, spoke of his speed and skill with the Navy Colt revolver were in favor. He said he could draw and fire with blinding speed, and without appearing to aim, your aim unerringly successful.

Given their legendary skills, it is fortunate that he was in favor of enforcing the law on the break. In 1855 at age 18, was police Monticello Township in Kansas Territory. For a time was a pilot freight Russell, Waddell and Major – the partners in a freight company great carrying supplies to military outposts of the West – a few years later started a small company called the Pony Express.

War During the Civil War, Hickok joined the Union forces, acting mainly in Kansas and Missouri, where he earned a reputation as an explorer of highly trained army. The fantasy, the Colts were recorded, in fact, a gift from a senator from Massachusetts, in recognition of his services to exploration for the army. He served with another famous explorer, Buffalo Bill Cody, who became his lifelong friend.

After the war, Wild Bill served as U.S. Marshal, and even made his living as a professional player for a while. Between 1865 and 1871, Hickok served as a lawman in various capacities – City Marshal Deputy Marshal, Sheriff and the U.S. Mariscal – mostly in cities such as Wichita Kansas cow, Hayes and Abilene.

It was in 1871, while he was marshal of Abilene, Kansas, that his lighting quick reflexes betrayed. I was looking down upon a large crowd of rowdy drunks in the street when the corner of his eye, he saw someone running toward him. Firing two shots in quick succession in the direction of motion, which fatally wounded Deputy Abilene quarterback Mike Williams, who had been running for him to come to their aid. Hickok was dismissed from his position as quarterback after two months. Haunted by the murder of the deputy for the rest of his life, never worked as representative of the law again.

Buffalo Bill, who had become a renowned showman, Hickok invited to join the cast of his new book, "Around Plains "in 1873. Unfortunately," Wild Bill "proved much less adept at the play was at stake with guns, and his show career was mercifully brief.

In 1876, the poor health of his poor eyesight, he retired to Deadwood Hickok, a field of wild and woolly mining in the Black Hills of Dakota the Territory, to drink and play poker. On the night of August 2, Hall entered Number Ten for a poker game. It was his habit of finding a chair in the corner front door, to protect against attack from behind. However, the room was filled that night and there were open seats corner. Nobody is sure why went against their inherent caution and took the chair back to the door, but that was a decision that proved fatal. Shot in the back of the head Jack McCall, who was to be hanged for his murder.

Legend has it that he had a pair of aces and a pair of eights, and his fifth letter had not yet been treaty when it fired the fatal shot. This combination of letters has been called the "dead man's hand" ever since.

JoAnn Graham is an internet marketer and author with 28 years experience in editing, writing, marketing and advertising. She has a special interest in the history of vintage firearms, and the people, places and events that made them historic. Visit her blog, “The Non-Smoking Gun” at http://www.gunsofold.com/blog/

For non-firing replicas of historic guns, replicas of famous western lawmen’s badges and many civil war reenactor accessories, visit http://www.gunsofold.com

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