she married well bill hickok after her first -- she married while bill after her first husband was killed. 1858 and alayna, kansas, a man named norton in who he had been sworn enemies with ever since he civil war, they had gotten in an argument and norton andpartially blinded him one eye. shot his eye out or almost out sworn vengeance. when he got out on jail bail, he went looking for norton. as nortonand as soon saw him coming, he pulled out his gun and shot and killed him. did not even give killian a chance. but he still got off because killian had been stalking him, coming after him. but notice the killian family said he was murdered, you know? [laughter] mr. wood: this is a little bit outside the ozarks. as i told you, there are a couple of stories in there that are not really ozark but close enough. in inan ran a roadside kansas in the early 1870's. it consisted of john bender, his wife, a son whose name was also john and a daughter named kate. kate was the only one that spoke fluent english, it was a german family. she was considered the leading spirit of the family. she was a spiri

she later married wild bill hickok. not later from this picture but later from after she -- after lake was killed. this might have been taken after wild bill hickok was killed. jake killian himself ended up getting killed in 1878 in galena, kansas by a man named norton. they had been sworn enemies since the civil war. they were soldiers together in the northern army and got into a fight over a card game and norton partially blinded killian in 19. the almost -- almost blinded killian in one eye. of -- when out killian got out of jail he found sawon and as soon as norton him coming he pulled out his gun and shot him. didn't give killian a chance. thetill got off because fact of killian had been stalking him and coming after them. the killian family said that he was murdered. this is the bender family, not actually in the ozarks, there are a couple of stories in here that are not in the ozarks but close enough. benders ran a wayside inn. kate,ad a daughter named kate was the only one that spoke fluent english. they were a

wild bill hickok was not around at that time. cody was the talk of the town, so to speak, with what he had accomplished in that expedition. ned buntline had him to talk to. it was at fort mcpherson they met. then he did his publication. >> that goes into the meat of my question which is, in various accounts of that encounter between cody and jensen, it is always said, or sometimes said, that was it lieutenant north at that time? i don't member his rank at that time. but he did not want to talk about it. he did not want to talk about the things that happened at summit springs. because he was reticent to do that, jensen spoke with cody instead. i'm wonder -- i wonder if north did not want to talk to this guy who was rolled in from california, or -- >> i would take it that -- this is before cody's fame. he has one focus and that is to do his job well. now, all of a sudden, he is getting a correspondent and he sees potential for that. i think it was more out of shyness to talk about himself than it was what you are suggesting. >> tha

he talks about feuding groups and infamous criminals from wild bill held kok -- wild bill hickok to bonniening out. i would also like to thank c-span. as jeremy says, the main book am going to be talking about is "ozarks gunfights and other

street while everyone runs for cover, that happened in springfield, missouri in 1865 between wild bill hickok and a confederate rebel gorilla name david tuck. although i don't agree with him and applications of his theory, one of the great scholars of violence in american history, he sees a whole pattern of the violence in which loyalties in the frontier west -- he goes at the western civil war incorporation, all these vjly separate actions are all a part of people trying to incorporate the west into american society and committee and political system. those people tend to be republicans and associated with the unions. if not veterans themselves then the younger brother of union veterans. there were also less confederates, people who had lively hoods on the other side. it's a pig theory and break down details. so missouri specifically and also the civil war, influence is a vinyl in the west in the back way. yes, sir in the back. >> in your research did you come across the information about harry true man's family that his mother's home was burned and when they were passionated, did that -- >>

it shows buffalo bill and everything that had passed from the west at that time, including whom hel hickok, with is often confused, and at the bottom is sitting bull. and then there is a painting i can't interpret. and needss by bacon, a psychoanalysis to decide what these little cherubs are doing, disrobing this white girl and tying her to a tree and turning her into toast. horizon, on the left-hand side, is her boyfriend paddling up to savior, so it is a reverse-pocahontas type of situation. like toartist we would introduce is charles still be -- former armyey, a scout. a lot of former scouts were invited, and buffalo bill gave him $250 to do a similar thing that they can add done a year before, and he sent him this picture. buffalo bill hated it and said, can't you do something better? i think i will return it to you. i don't know if he did. ey wanted a couple of hundred dollars to change it, so buffalo bill just kept it is in our collections today. a fourth artist, who studied germany, your in can see one of his models who is trying to -- who is about to shoot one of his knee caps off