Wild Bill Hickok Revolver Folding Knife & Display

Pay homage to an American icon with this stunning Wild West historical commemorative "Wild Bill Hickok" folding gun knife on wooden display. Measuring 8" in overall length and featuring a 2 1/2" blade length, this impressive piece is finely crafted with Wild Bill's portrait featured on the handle, and comes with a luxurious wooden display stand. Perfect for the gun enthusiast or Wild West collector.

• 8" Overall length

• 2 1/2" Blade length

• Wild Bill's portrait on the handle

• Comes with a wooden display stand 
  

Item No. AN1933-WB

James Butler "Wild Bill Hickok"

1838-1870

Born In rural Illinois, James Hickok developed extraordinary shooting skills in an otherwise un-remarkable childhood. He left home and traveled west in 1855, working irregularly as farmhand hired gun and stagecoach driver. During the civil  war, he was Union spy in Missouri. After the war, he served as Marshal in several rough frontier towns and as cavalryman. Over the years, his gun fighting and gambling prowess became stuff of old west l.  Among his legendary exploits, he reportedly killed a bear armed only with a bowie knife. During a poker game in 1876, a gunman shot him in his back.  He was aces over eights a holding henceforth known as "the dead man's hand."