but wild bill hickok was really a deadly gunfighter and a really crack shot. george custer was a bona fide civil war hero. he had seven horses shot out from under him during different battles in the civil war. and he was a key part of the union's victory at the battle of gettysburg. and as an army scout, buffalo bill cody once wrote 350 miles in 60 hours on a mule to carry dispatches back and forth between three army forts. and he had to walk the last ten miles because the mule ran away. of course, there's a less heroic part to that story in that when buffalo bill caught up with the mule, he shot him. so so the people i write wrote about are certainly legends. legend, worthy and just on what they really did, let alone the stories that were made up about them. so one of the things i found interesting was that there were people that were equally legend worthy, who aren't legends. and i don't really know why that if there's a single answer to that and i'll give you an example. there was a fellow named bill tillman. he had a law enforcement career that spanned 50