Trivia: Wild Bill Hickok Had a Brother Named Tame Bill

Posted by Alex in Daily Trivia on April 16, 2008 at 11:43 am


Legendary gunfighter and lawman James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok had a brother, nicknamed Tame Bill.

His brother’s name was Lorenzo Butler Hickok. The origin of the nickname "Wild Bill" was unclear. One popular story told of how Hickok saw a man about to be beaten by a group of thugs and intervened. He drew his revolvers and threatened to shoot the first man to move. As nobody wanted to be shot, the crowd disperesed. (Source)

In 1876, Hickok was killed while playing poker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. He was holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights, a hand that got to be called the "Dead Man’s Hand."


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8 comments to "Trivia: Wild Bill Hickok Had a Brother Named Tame Bill"

  1. Agnostic Anarch
    April 16th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    How do you say "disperesed" in English?
    ~AA

  2. Gordon
    April 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Urban legend.

  3. CheeseDuck
    April 16th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    Tame Bill? Seriously? Thats one sucky name.

  4. The Slapster
    April 16th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Swearengen would have gotten to him eventually...

  5. Alannah
    April 16th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    Poor guy. That's got to make a man bitter.

  6. MoonCake
    April 17th, 2008 at 4:23 am

    assuming deadwood is a somewhat accurate depiction, wild bill was murdered in cold blood! unfair, i tell ya. oh well, he would be dead today anyway.. he had to go sometime.

  7. ted
    April 17th, 2008 at 5:10 am

    And there was his upper-class cousin, Domesticated Bill.

  8. Alex
    May 29th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    Oops - fixed typo. Thanks Bryan & Tanya Hickok!


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