What the records say
- When
- 21 Jul 1865
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 37.20° N, 93.29° W
- Description
- Gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and gambler Davis Tutt
Placed at the middle of the 2 places Wikidata lists.
Hickok–Tutt shootout
1865 gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt
The Hickok–Tutt shootout was a gunfight that occurred on July 21, 1865, in the town square of Springfield, Missouri between Wild Bill Hickok and gambler Davis Tutt. It is one of the few recorded instances in the Old West of a one-on-one pistol quick-draw duel in a public place, in the manner later made iconic by countless dime novels, radio dramas, and Western films such as High Noon.
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2 sources record it
- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Wild Bill Hickok – Davis Tutt shootout: In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots "Little Dave" Davis Tutt dead over a poker debt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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