| Page 40 GENTLEMEN BRAVOS OF EARLY DAYS.
Some of the "Bad" Ones of our Day.
Las Vegas Optic.
First we will speak of "Wild Bill" whose career is too well known to dwell upon. It is said that he had a notch cut on his pistol handle for each man he had killed, numbering twenty-six. He finally met a violent death at the gambling table at the hands of Jack, who was hung at Yankton. Wild Bill's real name was Hickock: he was a native of Indiana, having ben in the Western country at the time of his death over twenty-five years. We nex speak of Buffalo Bill, of whom we know little except that he was a desperate man, but within the past few years, his adopted sate, Kansas, becoming civilized, he has simmered down, and finally settled down in Nebraska, where he has once represented his districtv in the Legislature. His real name is Wm. F. Cody, and he ciofly won his fame through his exploits as a hunter. Both him and Wild Bill are well known by the old residents of Hays City, Kansas.
Cherokee Bill is unknown as a killer and an outlaw, making his home most of the time in the Indian Territory. But little is known to the writer of the character of "Prairie Dog Dave," except for a long time that he was a "rounder-up" and a knave. Mysterious Dave is too well known in this community to dwell upon at length; we believe he too hails | Page 40 GENTLEMEN BRAVOS OF EARLY DAYS.
Some of the "Bad" Ones of our Day.
Las Vegas Optic.
First we will speak of "Wild Bill" whose career is too well known to dwell upon. It is said that he had a notch cut on his pistol handle for each man he had killed, numbering twenty-six. He finally met a violent death at the gambling table at the hands of Jack, who was hung at Yankton. Wild Bill's real name was Hickock: he was a native of Indiana, having ben in the Western country at the time of his death over twenty-five years. We nex speak of Buffalo Bill, of whom we know little except that he was a desperate man, but within the past |
