Word: hickock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Oklahoma Jim Moore, 87, old-time Indian fighter, lately technical adviser for Hollywood horse operas; in Strongsville, Ohio. Bearded, long-maned Oklahoma Jim was believed to be the last surviving eyewitness to the shooting of Wild Bill Hickock in a Deadwood, S. D. saloon...
After a somewhat unnecessary explanation of the historical fallacies of the plot, Cocil B. DeMillo proceeds to give the movie-going public the best production of his career in "The Plainsman." With Gary Cooper as the far-famed, hard riding, Wild Bill Hickock, and Jean Arthur as the colorful figure of Calamity Jane, the picture needs only the barest outline of a plot to make it a huge success, but "The Plainsman" has more than this. It embraces the condensation of the period of frontier development from the eve of Lincoln's assassination to and through the reign of Buffalo...