This Day…

1871-The gambler and saloonman, Phil Coe, got to whooping it up with about fifty texas cowboys in Abilene, Kansas when he confronted Coe fired on Wild Bill Hickok but missed twice and Hickok gutshot him. Just then Deputy Mike Williams rushed onto the scene to assist Hickok but Hickok mistook him for an adversary and killed him with two headshots. Williams was the last man that Hickok ever fired a gun at. Coe died in agony three days later.