“Wild Bill” Hickman and the Mormon Frontier

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William Adams (“Wild Bill”) Hickman used to be some of the notorious outlaws of the nineteenth-century American frontier. As a bodyguard and spy for Mormon church presidents Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, he used to be popularly referred to as a “destroying angel.” Then again, a matter of disagreement among historians is whether he acted more continuously in his church’s interest or independently as a true renegade. Hickman obeyed the Mormon teaching of polygamy and used to be husband to ten wives and father to thirty-five children. Right through the Utah War of 1857-58, he rallied with his fellow Mormons and used to be some of the effective guerillas in the hit-and-run attacks that wore down the attacking U.S. Army. When he used to be later arrested and jailed for murdering a government arms dealer Right through the war, his troubles multiplied when he implicated Brigham Young. Young returned the favor by excommunicating him and never speaking to him again. When he died in Wyoming in 1883, his reputation in three states forced many of his relatives to change their name to escape the social stigma of circle of relatives ties, at the same time as the residents of the small town in which he died refused to bury him in the city cemetery. Still, whatever one thinks of his motives or degree of loyalty, Hickman left an indelible affect on the history and myth of the West as a rough, undisciplined frontiersman who on the other hand helped to establish the Rocky Mountain kingdom of Mormons.

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