p that he would be added to Wild Bills reputation.One night Hardin took a room at the American House Hotel in town. At about one oclock in the morning, snoring in the room next door awakened Hardin. After awhile he was so irritated that he picked up his pistol and shoot twice through he wall. It was now dead silent and Hardin knew that he was going to have trouble with Bill.One of the problems that Wild Bill ran into, in Abilene was a guy named Coe. Wild Bill did not really like this Coe fellow. At one time Wild Bill ordered him to take off some revealing figures off of his sign in front of his business. Coe refused to do this. Wild Bill then hired someone to do it. This infuriated Coe and he went on a drunken rampage that nigh with some of his Texan friends. Now Coe rarely ever carried a pistol, but this night he was caring one. The men were heading to the Alamo Saloon were Coe shoot off a couple of rounds. Wild Bill and his friend, and fellow lawman, Mike Williams were down the street in another saloon. They both heard the shoots and headed that way. Wild Bill went in through the back door while Williams went to the front. Wild Bill went into the bar and asked who shot the weapon. Coe answered that he was shooting at a stray dog. Wild Bill had his gun drawn on coe and asked him to put his weapon down, but instead Coe pointed his weapon at Wild Bill. They are not sure who pulled the trigger first, but Coe went down and Wild Bill was still standing. As that happened Williams was running up from behind the Texans with his pistols out. Wild Bill thought that it was another one of Coes friends and Bill shot him to his death. It is thought to be that this was the last man Wild Bill ever shot. The town decided that after all of this that it was time to clean the town up. They banished all of the gambling bars, which took care of most of the problem people. And because of the banning of the bars, Wild Bill was no longer...
