— LEGENDARY SHOWDOWN — In the late afternoon of July 21, 1865, a man wearing a pair of revolvers strapped to his waist, ivory handles turned forward, walked along a street in Springfield, Missouri, heading for the town square.

The flat, broad-brimmed hat he wore cast a shadow across the blue-gray eyes and long, droopy mustache that belonged to James Butler Hickok.

Approaching the square from the south, he […]

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