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Wild West Wednesday – Wild Bill Hickok and Gambler Davis Tutt Engaged in First Recorded Gunfight in the Old West
Image: Wild Bill Hickok threatens the friends of Davis Tutt after defeating Tutt in a duel. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, February 1867. (Public Domain) On July 21, 1865, Wild Bill Hickok and gambler Davis Tutt engaged in a gunfight in the town square of Springfield, Missouri. It is the first time in the recorded history…