In the summer of 1865, the dusty town square of Springfield, Missouri, bore witness to a fatal encounter that would become one of the few recorded instances of a one-on-one quick-draw duel in the Old West. Davis Tutt, a man of about 28 or 29 years and a former soldier for the Confederate Army, was shot and killed on July 21, 1865. His death was the culmination of a bitter feud with the man who would become a Western legend, James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok.
The trouble between the two men,
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