William Adams Hickman

1815 - 1883  (68 år)

• Navn	William Adams Hickman
  Kælenavn	Wild Bill
  Fødsel	16 apr. 1815	USA, Kentucky, Owsley County, Booneville
  Køn	Mand
  Folketælling	1880	Little Laramie River, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
  Nationalitet	USA
  Religion	Mormon
  Død	21 aug. 1883	Lander, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
  Begravelse	23 aug. 1883	Lander, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
  Person-ID	I629987	My Family Genealogy | Familen Ravnholdt & Hansen
  Sidst ændret	27 apr. 2025

  
  

  Familie	Sarah Elizabeth Luce,   f. 12 sep. 1828, Knox County, Maine, USA d. 29 mar. 1909, USA, Utah, Piute County (Alder 80 år)
  Ægteskab	30 jan. 1846	USA, Kentucky, Warren County, Booneville
  Familie-ID	F604631	Gruppeskema  |  Familietavle
  Sidst ændret	9 apr. 2025

  
  

• Begivenhedskort		Fødsel - 16 apr. 1815 - USA, Kentucky, Owsley County, Booneville Ægteskab - 30 jan. 1846 - USA, Kentucky, Warren County, Booneville  = Link til Google Earth
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  "Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon Frontier HOPE A. HILTON Paperback. 174 Pages. / 0-941214-67-2 / $14.95 William Adams ("Wild Bill") Hickman was one of the most notorious outlaws of the nineteenth-century American frontier. As a bodyguard and spy for Mormon church presidents Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, he was popularly known as a "destroying angel." However, a matter of disagreement among historians is whether he acted more often in his church's interest or independently as a true renegade. Hickman obeyed the Mormon teaching of polygamy and was husband to ten wives and father to thirty-five children. During the Utah War of 1857-58, he rallied with his fellow Mormons and was one of the most effective guerillas in the hit-and-run attacks that wore down the attacking U.S. Army. When he was later arrested and jailed for murdering a government arms dealer during 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 family ties, while 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 impact on the history and myth of the West as a rough, undisciplined frontiersman who nevertheless helped to establish the Rocky Mountain kingdom of Mormons.