CONTENTS. PAGE.[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