[Illustration: WILD BILL.] LIFE AND MARVELOUS ADVENTURES OF WILD BILL, THE SCOUT. BEING A TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY OF ALL THE SANGUINARY COMBATS AND HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCOUT AND SPY AMERICA EVER PRODUCED. BY J. W. BUEL, OF THE ST. LOUIS PRESS. _ILLUSTRATED._ CHICAGO: BELFORD, CLARKE & CO. 1880. Copyrighted 1879, by W. S. BRYAN. CONTENTS. PAGE. 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 PECULIARITIES OF WILD BILL’S NATURE.