Who am I? #16

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Photo courtesy of HomeOfHeroes.com .

[Qball]

William Billy Dixon

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

William Billy Dixon

Mighty fast and mighty accurate, Qball.  Here's a bit more to flesh it out.

DIXON, WILLIAM
Rank: Scout. Born: 25 October 1850, Ohio County, West Virginia. War: Indian Campaigns. Organization: 6th U.S. Cavalry. Place: Wichita River, Texas. Action date: 12 September 1874. Issue date: 4 November 1874. Citation: Gallantry in action.

(In 1916, the general review of all Medals of Honor deemed 900 unwarranted. This recipient was one of them. In June 1989, the U.S. Army Board of Correction of Records restored the medal to this recipient.)

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohind.htm

[Willie Dixon]

Does anyone have more information on William Dixon?  He's my third great uncle and I'm actually working on getting the outfit in the picture made/procured.  My uncle also has an original 1874 Sharps rifle, he said was handed down, I'm kind of curious if it's the actual gun or another one like it too, please, any information would be most appreciated as far as colors of dress etc.  Kind of hard with a black and white photograph.  Worst case, I'll go with his buffalo hunter rig, I have a picture of that somewhere.

thanks
Pat

[RattlesnakeJack]

My recollection is that most accounts of Billy Dixon's famous shot have him making it with another man's rifle, loaned to him to use because he was recognized as the best shot of the group .....

[bear tooth billy]

What I read was Billy had a new 44/77 but made the shot with a borrowed big 50 (50/90)
I went to Adobe Walls a few years ago, put my period clothes on, put my Sharps on cross sticks
and my wife took a picture of me pointing at the famous butte   Neat picture  Very cool to talk to
a relative of Billy's Good luck in your search

[Willie Dixon]

thanks everyone for your help!  so I don't steal this topic thread, I put this new topic in the CAS Historical Society section:
http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,23666.0/topicseen.html
I really appreciate all the help already, like finding out about the gun being borrowed!  Didn't know that!  I'm getting his book from Amazon for Christmas and I can't wait. 

thanks again for your help!

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I thought the rifle in question came right off the rack of the trader.  They were likely holed up in the store.