The Romantic Love Letter Wild Bill Hickok Left for His Wyoming Widow
"Wild" Bill Hickok was one of the most famous gunslingers in American history. He was also a hopeless romantic.
141 years ago, on August 2, 1876, the old west icon was shot and killed at a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. Several months earlier, Hickok had written a love letter to his wife, Agnes Lake, with instructions to read it upon his death...