In his younger years, he worked rodeos, and was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
As a young man he traveled, following rodeos around the country and in 1893 performed in a wild west show at the Chicago World Fair, and was also in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
In 1900 he began the first of two consecutive terms on the Pinal County Board of Supervisors.
[2][3] Wills died on June 23, 1940, at his home in Tucson, Arizona from a heart attack.
He had retired from ranching in 1934 and moved to Tucson, and had been in ill health for two years prior to his death.