# Dave Tutt — The Life of Buffalo Bill character guide

> Dave Tutt in The Life of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Tutt

**First appearance:** 0003-i-childhood

## Snapshot

A gambler whose quarrel with Wild Bill Hickok over a card debt escalates into one of the frontier's most famous and fatal street confrontations.

## Who they are

Tutt moves in the saloon-and-card-table world where reputations were staked as readily as money, and his feud with Hickok turns a private grievance into public spectacle. He is the antagonist whose stubbornness and pride push a dispute past the point where either man can back down without losing face. His role matters because the showdown he provokes becomes a defining episode in the book's portrait of Hickok, showing how quickly frontier justice could turn lethal and how thin the line was between a gambling argument and a grave.

## In the story

### [X: Questionable Proceedings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_life_of_buffalo_bill_se/chapters/x-questionable-proceedings)

Professional gambler killed by Wild Bill in a duel over a watch.

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