Wild Bill

Scout for the Pioneers

Scout for the Union Army

Marshall for Hay City

Dodge City and Abeline

Killed in Deadwood

August 2, 1876

Buried on Mount Moriah

300 feet above this spot

Presented to the City of Deadwood

By George R. Hunter

Marker is on Sherman Street near ...

James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok

Pioneer of the Great Plains, born here May 27, 1837. Assassinated at Deadwood, August 2, 1876. Served his country as a scout and a spy in the western States, to preserve the Union in the Civil War. Equally great were ...