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Bill Hickock is quoted in saying a person should feel no guiltier of shooting a bad man than shooting a mean dog.
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Hickock … wasted most of his time in Deadwood drinking, gambling, and shooting at targets.
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Both were fun to watch but short on real history, and was a satire as regarded Custer, Hickock, Calamity Jane, etc.
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Capote devotes a lot of the book to a not unsympathetic psychological portrait of Hickock and Smith, the two killers; though the description of the Kansas environment where the Clutter family lived and died (based partly on notes by Harper Lee, who had just finished writing To Kill A Mockingbird) is also rather memorable.
October Books 16) In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote nwhyte 2009
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Hickock on the other hand shot up the McCandles gang in a gunfight that went on in a room, while they were shooting back (and scoring).
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Hickock … wasted most of his time in Deadwood drinking, gambling, and shooting at targets.
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Hickock, a poor loser, said that if Tutt so much as looked at the watch he would kill him.
David E. 2009
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Both were fun to watch but short on real history, and was a satire as regarded Custer, Hickock, Calamity Jane, etc.
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Hickock, who was a genuinely skilled shot, drew, took careful aim (some versions have him using a fencepost as a rest), and drilled Tutt through the heart.
David E. 2009
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Hickock on the other hand shot up the McCandles gang in a gunfight that went on in a room, while they were shooting back (and scoring).
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