Abilene Dedicates New Wild Bill Hickok Monument at Old Abilene Town
A new bronze monument honoring Wild Bill Hickok was officially dedicated Sunday at Old Abilene Town, located at 201 SE Fifth Street in Abilene, Kansas. The dedication comes 150 years after the death of Hickok, who served as marshal of Abilene during the community's cattle-town era.
The monument was created by the late artist David R. Young, who also sculpted the Wild Bill Hickok monument at Hickok's gravesite in Deadwood, South Dakota. Members of the Young family traveled to Abilene to attend Sunday's ceremony.
Following the dedication, attendees gathered at the Alamo Saloon for refreshments and met historical reenactors from Minnesota portraying Hickok and Agnes Thatcher Lake.
Hickok served as marshal in Abilene for only a few months, but the period remains one of the most well-known chapters in the town's history.
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