this film provide the saga of a legendary wild bill hickock . he and buffalo bill cody and and calamity jane and be the central character . a the civil war close and lincoln mention his concern that the country dynamism would be enhance if people would follow the advice and go west and young man and which and mercifully and the film do not erroneously attribute to horace greeley and a a number of others do . but then and he get assassinate and and some financier speculate that they can get rich selling weapon to the american indian . in the meantime and we see wild bill hickock and who interact with a small boy and while a steamboat be load at a dock along the mississippi . wild bill use a bowie knife and which he eventually give to the boy and call it an arkansas toothpick and which in reality be a different type of knife and though both be use throughout the frontier . hickock eventually meet buffalo bill cody and who look close to the photograph and painting of the actual man . cody have just get married and and be bring his bride to the old west to settle down . when they arrive at their destination and they run into calamity jane and who have a crush on hickock . she look at cody wife and and ask buffalo bill and be this your mopsy . the line be one that cause the hayes board some problem and since one definition of mopsy be prostitute . demille want the line in and and one of his aide point out that in beatrix potter book about peter rabbit and three of the rabbit be flopsy and mopsy and and cottontail . he point this out and ask the censor to identify the rabbit of ill virtue . it work while the line stay in . the indian be get restless and in part because of the superior weaponry they get from the agent of the eastern financier . cody and hickock be ask to help scout the area and so that troop could get safely through to a beleaguered area . cody lead the troop while hickock go to check out the activity of an indian chief and who be an old acquaintance and and who be lead some of the hostile indian . calamity jane get capture and and hickock get capture try to save her . they be bring to the chief and and although neither would talk and torture apply to hickock break calamity jane willpower and and she tell the route cody be use . the two be release and and hickock join up with cody and his force and in part to alert them theyre walk into a trap . with hickok help and they hold off the indian attack . hickock decides to go after the gun runner and and finally take them prisoner . a theyre wait for authority and hickock be gun down by be shoot in the back while play card . there be numerous historic anomaly in the film and but it retain the flavor of legend . pretty good for the 1930s .