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This guy could do it all. Woodcutter, bullwhacker and muleskinner, scout, plainsman, buffalo hunter, and Indian fighter, Medal Of Honor recipient. He was postmaster and a sheriff and a Texas state land commissioner and justice of the peace.
On Sunday morning, June 28, 1874, buffalo hunter Billy Dixon took aim with his .50 caliber Sharps buffalo rifle and fired a shot toward a group of 20 Indian chief and warriors sitting on horseback at the top of a ridge nearly a mile away. Dixon's rifle shot knocked a fierce Comanche warrior named To-hah-kah off his horse. There are disputed accounts as to whether To-han-kah was wounded or killed, but there is no disagreement that Billy Dixon's amazing shot, called the Shot of the Century, effectively ended the Second Battle of Adobe Walls.
On Sunday morning, June 28, 1874, buffalo hunter Billy Dixon took aim with his .50 caliber Sharps buffalo rifle and fired a shot toward a group of 20 Indian chief and warriors sitting on horseback at the top of a ridge nearly a mile away. Dixon's rifle shot knocked a fierce Comanche warrior named To-hah-kah off his horse. There are disputed accounts as to whether To-han-kah was wounded or killed, but there is no disagreement that Billy Dixon's amazing shot, called the Shot of the Century, effectively ended the Second Battle of Adobe Walls.
