🔒 Unmasking Wild Bill Hickok: Debating His Legend, Kansas Criticism, and the Hickok-Tutt Gunfight

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a textWas Wild Bill Hickok a larger-than-life hero or a product of wild exaggerations? This episode promises to uncover the truth behind Colonel George Ward Nichols' controversial portrayal of Hickok in Harper's New Monthly magazine. You'll hear about how Kansas newspapers didn't hold back in criticizing Nichols' hyperbolic claims and learn about the unfiltered character of journalism during that period. We also discuss Springfield, Missouri's transformation pos...