Wild Bill Hickok/Tutt Gunfight Markers (Springfield, Missouri)

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Site of the first and one of the few fully documented 'classic' Wild West gunfights.

On 21st July, 1865, Wild Bill Hickok and David Tutt quarrelled over cards (one story) and decided to have a gunfight. At 6pm Hickok and Tutt arranged to walk towards each other. When they were about 50 yards apart both men drew his gun. Tutt fired first but missed. Hickok's shot hit Tutt in the heart.

This was the first recorded example of two men taking part in a quick-draw duel. The following month Hickok was acquitted after pleading self-defence. Tutt was one of the estimated 20,000 men in the American West were killed from gunshot wounds between 1866 and 1900.

Pavement markers exist at the places where the two men stood.