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William Dathan Holbert (born September 12, 1979), alias William Adolfo Cortez and nicknamed "Wild Bill", is an American serial killer/hitman. Originally from North Carolina , he is currently serving a 47-year sentence for the killings of five Americans in Panama.
Bill Dewbre was born in Texas on November 28, 1947. His family had moved to the Dallas area from Lawton, Oklahoma, where his father, Cleave Dewbre, had tooled cowboy boots. [2] Bill grew up working for his father as an assistant for their family store in Irving, Texas. [3] He began learning leather craft from his father at age 8 or 9.
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights.
Ben Thompson (November 2, 1843 – March 11, 1884) was a gunman, gambler, and sometimes lawman of the Old West.He was a contemporary of "Buffalo" Bill Cody, Bat Masterson, John Wesley Hardin, and "Wild Bill" Hickok, some of whom considered him a friend, others an enemy.
John McCall (/ m ə ˈ k ɔː l /) (1852/1853 – March 1, 1877), also known as "Crooked Nose" or "Broken Nose Jack", was the murderer of Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok. McCall shot Hickok from behind as he played poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, on August 2, 1876. McCall was executed for the murder on March 1, 1877.
If you paid attention to the NFL season so far, you're completely aware that Buffalo Bills fans are out of their minds. Whether it's endless body slams -- successful or not -- or other humiliating ...
CompUSA, which sold computer hardware and software, was started in 1984 as Soft Warehouse in Texas. By 1991, the name had changed to CompUSA, and it became publicly traded on the New York Stock ...
The legend of the McCanles "Gang" has been traced to a single incident between a young Hickok (not yet known as "Wild Bill") and a rancher named David Colbert McCanles at Rock Creek Station, a stagecoach and Pony Express station in southern Nebraska, near present-day Fairbury.