{"echo_id":"487029c2-edd5-4885-9c55-bea72f9e0cbe","kind":"person","canonical_name":"Wild Bill Hickok","aliases":["James Butler Hickok"],"summary":"James Butler Hickok, known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a soldier, scout, lawman, and gunfighter of the American Old West. He was born on 27 May 1837 and died on 2 August 1876. The English Wikipedia article says he was born and raised on a farm in northern Illinois, went west at eighteen, and worked as a stagecoach driver and later as a lawman in Kansas and Nebraska. He served the Union army in the Civil War, including as a scout, and afterward drew publicity as a marksman, an actor, and a professional gambler. That article warns that many printed tales about him, including some he told himself, are fictitious. A widely repeated account says Jack McCall shot him during a poker game in Deadwood on the day of his death. This sheet does not treat that account, or the other gunfight stories, as settled fact. The portrait is a black-and-white copy of an 1873 photograph by George G. Rockwood, and the print is in the public domain. Wikidata is Q44677.","years":"1837–1876","place_hint":null,"tags":[],"verified":false,"public_publish":true,"primary_image_url":"https://media-vayati.s3.us-east-va.io.cloud.ovh.us/echoes/visages/487029c2-edd5-4885-9c55-bea72f9e0cbe/f66abdc558a640199cf4.jpg","primary_image_type":"upload","is_placeholder":false,"image_is_placeholder":false,"created_at":"2026-10-31T06:52:43.633Z","updated_at":"2026-10-31T07:30:12.402Z","parent_place_echo_id":null,"place_grain":null,"external_links":{"primary":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok","related":["https://www.deadwoodhistory.com/","https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wild_Bill_Hickok_by_Rockwood,_1873.jpg"]},"nested_places":[],"parent_place":null}