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American Wild West

Do you remember the events and famous figures from American Wild West?
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1. The Wild West is generally considered as a period between what years?
1830-1860
1790-1830
1760-1790
1860-1890
2. There were five Earp brothers. Which one did not exist?
Wyatt
Morgan
Billy
Virgil
3. What was Buffalo Bill's real name?
William Cody
Ed Schieffelin
Marion Morrison
Henry McCarty
4. Who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1884 and later got nickname “Little Miss Sureshot?”
Pearl Hart
Belle Starr
Calamity Jane
Annie Oakley
5. Which Native American chief worked in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show?
Geronimo
Red Cloud
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
6. What was the name of Butch Cassidy's gang of criminal outlaws?
The Regulators
The Young Guns
The House
The Wild Bunch
7. What was the name of the hideout where Butch Cassidy would hide?
Hole in the Wall
The Unknown Castle
Blindman Hills
The Fortress
8. What country's military forces shot dead Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Bolivia
Canada
Venezuela
Mexico
9. In which state is Dodge City located?
Colorado
Nevada
Kansas
Arizona
10. Kid Curry was part of which notorious gang?
The Wild Bunch
The Rustlers
The James-Younger
The Cowboys
11. What was the profession of gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday?
Banker
Dentist
Veterinarian
Laywer
12. What did Doc Holliday die from?
Dysentery
Tuberculosis
Poisoning
Thrown from his horse
13. In which state is the town of Deadwood located?
South Dakota
New Mexico
Nevada
Missouri
14. What cards was Wild Bill Hickok holding when he was shot? Today, that is known as the "Dead Man's Hand".
Aces & eights
Aces & fours
Aces & jacks
Aces & queens
15. Where was Wild Bill Hickok killed?
Lincoln
Tombstone
Deadwood
Santa Fe
16. Who was the leader of Comanche tribe?
Red Cloud
Chief Joseph
Quanah Parker
Cochise
17. Which famous Indian leader was killed in the early skirmishes leading up to the Wounded Knee battle?
Red Cloud
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
18. Which Indian tribe was involved in the Wounded Knee massacre?
Apache
Navajo
Sioux
Cree
19. Which Apache leader is second only to Geronimo when it comes to that tribe’s historical significance?
Cochise
Squanto
Red Cloud
Crazy Horse
20. Who was the leader of the Lakota Tribe, who defeated US forces in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Cochise
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
21. What was the most useful and important animal Native Americans used?
Buffalo
Beaver
Coyote
Bear
22. Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman known for being an acquaintance of...
Billy the Kid
Wyatt Earp
George Armstrong Custer
Wild Bill Hickok
23. Henry McCarty was better known by what nickname?
Sundance Kid
The Tall Texan
Billy the Kid
Butch Cassidy
24. In which state is the town of Tombstone located?
Arizona
Missouri
Texas
Kansas
25. What was Jesse James' gang called?
The Jesse-Frank Gang
The Young Guns
The Wild Bunch
The James-Younger Gang
26. Who killed Jesse James?
Robert Ford
Billy Clanton
Doc Holliday
Wyatt Earp
27. What happened to him after he was convicted of the murder of Jesse James?
He was released
He was murdered
He was hanged
He was imprisoned
28. Who offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Jesse James, dead or alive?
Governor Crittenden
Attorney Brewster
President Chester A. Arthur
Private detective Pinkerton
29. Who did the Pinkerton's detectives kill when they threw a bomb through the window of Jesse James' house?
Jesse's mother
Jesse's young half-brother
Jesse's father
Jesse's brother Frank
30. A heroic sheriff named Pat Garrett caught and jailed Billy the Kid. Then what happened?
Billy was hanged
Billy escaped
Billy wounded Pat Garrett
Billy killed Pat Garrett
31. Who killed Billy the Kid?
Jesse James
John Henry Tunstall
Pat Garrett
Ike Clanton
32. How old was Billy the Kid when he was murdered?
33
15
25
21
33. In what town did the gunfight at the O.K. corral take place?
Tombstone
Dodge City
El Paso
Lincoln
34. How long the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral lasted?
3 minutes
30 seconds
30 minutes
3 hours
35. How many people were killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
5
4
3
7
36. Who was not killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
Ike Clanton
Billy Clanton
Frank McLaury
Tom McLaury
37. Whose pseudonym was William H. Bonney?
Buffalo Bill
Ike Clanton
Jesse James
Billy the Kid
38. Where was Allan Pinkerton, the founder of Pilkerton's Detective Agency from?
Ireland
Waled
United States
Scotland
39. What was Harry Longabaugh's outlaw nickname?
Butch Cassidy
Black Bart
Sundance Kid
Buffalo Bill
40. Who was "The Queen of the Oklahoma Outlaws"?
Belle Starr
Calamity Jane
Pearl Hart
Laura Bullion
41. Which US president promised peace with Indians and then provoked one of the bloodiest conflicts in the West?
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
42. What was the name of a mail service using relays of horse-mounted riders in American Wild West?
Royal Express
Cowboy Express
Pony Express
Buffalo Express
43. What was the route of that service?
Nevada-California
Missouri-California
Nebraska-California
Mississippi-California
44. Who was the U.S. commander that lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Ulysses S. Grant
George S. Patton
Jesse James
George Armstrong Custer
45. What weapon has become known as "the gun that won the west"?
Winchester riffle
Colt peacemaker
Smith & Wesson revolver
Sharps derringer
9 Comments
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Level 55
Feb 25, 2022
Cool quiz! I love the wild west
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Level 53
Feb 25, 2022
Thanks for playing :)
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Level 63
Feb 25, 2022
Great quiz. I got the Robert Ford one wrong because he WAS eventually murdered, but not by the law (which is likely what the question meant). He faced no legal repercussions, but someone angry over it murdered him years later.

If you haven’t seen it, ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,’ covers it. It is a fantastic movie far too few people have seen.

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Level 53
Feb 25, 2022
Thanks. I haven't seen the movie but I definitely will.
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Level 52
Feb 25, 2022
Tremendous film. Easily one of the best westerns of the past 20 years.
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Level 71
Nov 4, 2023
Cool quiz, but I think #4 gives away the answer to #1.
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Level 53
Nov 4, 2023
Yes, you are right. I will fix it.
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Level 87
Nov 4, 2023
Nice quiz. It's got a few typos which, if fixed, would make this a quiz I'd nominate
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Level 53
Nov 4, 2023
Thanks. Please let me know.