Custer arrives with the cavalry. Back in town, Hickok catches up with Lattimer and tells him to get ready for a gun duel. Lattimer sends three cavalry deserters in his place. Hickok kills all three in the gunfight, but this makes him a fugitive from the law. Hickok flees to the Dakota Territory. Calamity leaves for Deadwood separately when the townspeople find out what she had done. Custer sends Cody after Hickok. After meeting in the woods, the two friends capture an Indian and learn that Custer has been killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and that the Cheyenne are moving to join the Sioux in the Black Hills. They also learn that Lattimer is sending more rifles to the Indians, to be picked up in Deadwood. Instead of arresting his friend, Cody rides off to warn the cavalry, while Hickok goes to Deadwood to deal with Lattimer. Hickok kills Lattimer and detains Lattimer's henchmen for arrest by the cavalry, but is shot in the back by Lattimer's informant, Jack McCall, while he is playing poker with the henchmen to pass the time. A heart-broken Calamity Jane cradles Hickok's body. Cast Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane James Ellison as William "Buffalo Bill" Cody Charles Bickford as John Lattimer Helen Burgess as Louisa Cody Porter Hall as Jack McCall Paul Harvey as Yellow Hand Victor Varconi as Painted Horse John Miljan as General George A. Custer Frank McGlynn, Sr. as Abraham Lincoln Granville Bates as Van Ellyn Frank Albertson as Young trooper Purnell Pratt as Captain Wood Fred Kohler as Jake (teamster) Pat Moriarity as Sergeant McGinnis Charles Judels as Tony Harry Woods as Quartermaster Sergeant Anthony Quinn as A Cheyenne Indian Francis McDonald as A River Gambler George Ernest as A Boy George MacQuarrie as General Merritt George "Gabby" Hayes as Breezy (billed as George Hayes) Fuzzy Knight as Dave Cavalry soldier extras and unit horses were period costumed members of the 115th Cavalry, Wyoming National guard which was still a horse cavalry unit from 1922 to 1941. Production Parts of the film were shot in Kanab Canyon, Kanab movie fort, and Paria, Utah. Reception and accolades Writing for The Spectator in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a rave review, suggesting that "perhaps it is the finest Western in the history of film". Greene praises de Mille's direction for his "magnificent