Hamish Sinclair (born 1841) was an American hunter and Union Army veteran of the American Civil War who lived in a cabin by O'Creagh's Run in Kingsbury County, South Dakota during the late 19th century.
Biography[]
Hamish Sinclair was born in Ohio in 1841, and he served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. During the war, he fought under the command of Don Carlos Buell at the Battle of Shiloh, recalling how one could scarcely walk across the battlefield without stepping over a dead body. Sinclair lost his leg during the war, after which he wore a prosthetic leg and became a hunter in the American West. Sinclair went on to move into a cabin along O'Creagh's Run (near De Smet) in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, and he hunted in the region and paid generous passers-by to help him with deliveries. In 1898, he hired the Arizona Kid to retrieve a stolen wagon from the O'Driscoll Boys at Six Point Cabin, and he became a frequent employer of Arizona whenever Arizona was in South Dakota.