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[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