Historians Say "Never." Springfield, Missouri Begs to Differ.

Historians Say "Never." Springfield, Missouri Begs to Differ.

Photograph by Martha Hutchens, image on display at History Museum on the Squareby Martha Hutchens“The gunfight in the middle of Main Street in an Old West town never happened,” historians say.And mostly, they’re right. But there was that one time in Springfield, Missouri—the story that made Wild Bill Hickok famous.Many of the details are disputed, but we do know that Wild Bill shot Davis Tutt on the Springfield square on July 21, 1865. Davis Tut…