And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Calamity Jane at the grave of Wild Bill Hickok, Deadwood, South Dakota, 1903.
Some day I need to visit Montana. I have some second cousins once removed that live out there. Wild Bill's grave looks like ones that I've seen in pictures that the relatives email to me of where our common ancestors are buried. One is my great, great grandfather who was a miner like the rest of them back in the late 1800 to the 1930s or so when the mines closed.
In 1876, Hickok was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (present-day South Dakota), by Jack McCall, an unsuccessful gambler. The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death (including the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, the eight of spades, and the eight of clubs) has become known as the dead man's hand.
More Montana history, check out Henry Plummer and the Vigilantes. Also Butte mining district. I could give you the low-down but it would take some time.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=canary&GSfn=martha&GSmn=jane&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=166&df=all& Calamity Jane https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hickok&GSfn=james&GSmn=butler&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=479&df=all& James Butler Enjoy and click into their daughter's memorial from Jane's
Another interesting and little-known fact is the history behind the reason James Butler Hickok became "Wild Bill." In Illinois as a young man he made an enemy of a local bad guy named David McAnles, who taunted Hickok with the moniker "Duck Bill" owing to his ski-jump nose and protruding upper lip.
Hickok shot him and adopted the "Wild Bill" name as his own.
Some of the iron work around the graves in those old cemeteries is amazing.
ReplyDeleteSome day I need to visit Montana. I have some second cousins once removed that live out there. Wild Bill's grave looks like ones that I've seen in pictures that the relatives email to me of where our common ancestors are buried. One is my great, great grandfather who was a miner like the rest of them back in the late 1800 to the 1930s or so when the mines closed.
ReplyDeleteMontana is beautiful, take your fly rod...
DeleteDeadwood is in South Dakota.
ReplyDeleteWell so it is. Thanks for the correction, Craig.
DeleteYea, I live in Montana and really like your photos. Visit daily.
DeleteSomething else I found that interesting:
DeleteIn 1876, Hickok was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (present-day South Dakota), by Jack McCall, an unsuccessful gambler. The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death (including the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, the eight of spades, and the eight of clubs) has become known as the dead man's hand.
Calamity Jane Passed on shortly after this picture was taken. She is buried in this plot with her Wild Bill
DeleteMore Montana history, check out Henry Plummer and the Vigilantes. Also Butte mining district. I could give you the low-down but it would take some time.
DeleteWow great info guys!!
Deletehttps://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=canary&GSfn=martha&GSmn=jane&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=166&df=all& Calamity Jane
ReplyDeletehttps://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hickok&GSfn=james&GSmn=butler&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=479&df=all& James Butler
Enjoy
and click into their daughter's memorial from Jane's
Another interesting and little-known fact is the history behind the reason James Butler Hickok became "Wild Bill." In Illinois as a young man he made an enemy of a local bad guy named David McAnles, who taunted Hickok with the moniker "Duck Bill" owing to his ski-jump nose and protruding upper lip.
ReplyDeleteHickok shot him and adopted the "Wild Bill" name as his own.