Billy Dixon
William Billy Dixon was an American scout and buffalo hunter active in the Texas Panhandle. He helped found Adobe Walls, fired a legendary buffalo rifle shot at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, and for his actions at the Buffalo Wallow Fight became one of eight civilians ever to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
Dixon was born in Ohio County, West Virginia on September 25, 1850. Of European and Native American ancestry he was orphaned at ageand lived with an uncle in Missouri for a year before setting out on his own. He worked in woodcutters camps along the Missouri River until he started working at ageas an ox driver and a mule skinner for a government contractor in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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