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A month after Hickok becomes marshal of Abilene, two Texas gunfighters, Phil Coe and Ben Thompson, start a saloon called the Bull’s Head Tavern. The rowdy joint creates tension all summer in 1871 and leads to a dramatic — and tragic — shootout at the end of the cattle season. Add Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin to the mix, and Hickok has his hands full in Abilene.
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