but what wasn't his doing that made hickok so well-known today i think anyway.is that he had gotten a reputation as a gunfighter in indian fighter frontier scout and harper's new monthly magazine sent a report out in 1867 i think it was it said find somebody who symbolizes the new frontier and they asked around people so you got to talk to bill hickok. which he did. he embellishes article a bit but when it appeared in the magazine it caused a sensation because mostly red back east and they pretrade hickok as this heroic legend he was even 30 yet. that was the face of the frontier. another reporter for the new york newspaper interviewed him his peace came about the same time the reporter's name was henry stanley whose next report was to find doctor livingston in africa but he did the same thing so hickok became this legendary figure and at first it was kind of embarrassed by it but as the years went on he embraced it. when you can't beat them join them. you'd be in a saloon date asked to tell a story about something he did that he never did. but it was free drink

and then the famous wild bill hickok. the kansas woman whose name was james butler hickok.omebody called him wild bill one day and it stuck. there's a lot of these names but curly bill brocious, that's a good name, johnny ringo is the best of all. this brought fame even when they didn't deserve it. an author wrote a book about johnny ringgold called johnny ringgold the gunfighter who never was. i think he killed one guy really that we are sure of, the others maybe he did maybe he didn't but he decided to exterminate the guy and that i was washing his face and he had a towel over his face dried his face and ringgold shot him. that's his only real standup shootout. so a lot of these guys were pretty counterfeit. in the 1920s the journalist picked up on it because america had faded from reality in the midst and america wanted hero cowboys in the movies the movies that really inspired that. the first movie with a story the great train robbery in 1903 it was a train robbery. actually butch cassidy and the sundance kid were still robbing trains out west at the time this happened.