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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Buffalo Bill
Age: 70 †
Born: 1846
Born: February 26
Died: 1917
Died: January 10
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Scott County
Iowa
William Frederick Cody
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