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PECULIARITIES OF WILD BILL’S NATURE 5
WILD BILL’S EARLY LIFE 7
FIRST EVIDENCE OF PLUCK 9
DESPERATE FIGHT AT ROCK CREEK 11
A RUNNING FIGHT WITH CONFEDERATES 19
ENTERS THE UNION ARMY AS A SPY 20
A RIDE WITH DEATH 22
CAPTURED AND CONDEMNED TO DEATH 26
A FIGHT WITH THREE BUSHWHACKERS 28
BOWIE-KNIFE DUEL WITH AN INDIAN CHIEF 30
INDIAN AND BUFFALO SPECULATION 33
BILL’S DUEL AT SPRINGFIELD 34
A QUADRANGULAR DUEL IN NEBRASKA 39
WILD BILL’S OPINION OF YANKEES 43
HOW BILL KILLED JACK STRAWHAN 45
BILL MULVEY’S LAST ROW 48
A FIGHT WITH FIFTEEN SOLDIERS 49
A DEATH FIGHT WITH TEXAS GAMBLERS 52
A REWARD OF $5,000 IN GOLD OFFERED FOR BILL’S HEART 55
BILL THOMPSON’S FATAL SURPRISE 58
WILD BILL MAKES TWENTY MEN ASK AN APOLOGY 60
BILL’S FIGHT WITH PHIL COLE’S COUSIN 62
REMOVES TO KANSAS CITY 64
A PRIZE FIGHT IN A CHICAGO BILLIARD ROOM 66
BILL’S MARRIAGE TO MRS. LAKE 67
MAKES HIS DEBUT ON THE STAGE 68
BILL’S LAST TRIP TO THE BLACK HILLS 69
ASSASSINATION OF WILD BILL 71
JACK McCALL PAYS THE PENALTY 79
WILD BILL’S REMAINS EXHUMED AND FOUND TO BE PETRIFIED 80
IDIOSYNCRACES OF BILL--HIS BELIEF IN SPIRITS 83
BILL’S WONDERFUL ACCURACY OF AIM 86
BLACK NELL, THE WONDERFUL MARE 88
CONCLUSION--DOES BILL DESERVE A MONUMENT? 90