But Hickok knew better than to try to pull the trigger on a man whose gun was already drawn.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Eugene Hickok, Mr Bush's under-secretary of education, says such numbers are an anomaly that will be ironed out in time.

ECONOMIST: Education reform

Encouraged by the Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok, her loving confidante, she began to write a daily newspaper column, hold frequent press conferences, and speak out, at home and in public, for the poor, for the oppressed, and for the unlucky.

NEWYORKER: State of the Union

This 1995 Western, directed by Walter Hill, starts out as a ripsnorting bio-pic of James Butler Hickok (1837-76), a scout for the Union Army in the Civil War, and then a lawman, a gambler, and a gunfighter but as soon as Hickok hits the boomtown of Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory, it turns into a memory play.

NEWYORKER: Wild Bill