Cavalcade of Ask The Marshall
Lessons I have learned during more than a quarter century of “Ask the Marshall.”
What kind of poker was Wild Bill Hickok playing
at the time he was shot?
James Summerlin
Lawrenceville, GA
Nobody seems to know what particular poker game they were playing at the Number 10 Saloon in Deadwood that day.
Joe Rosa, Hickok’s late biographer, never saw it written anywhere. The late Bob DeArment, author of Knights of the Green Cloth, said, “I’v

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows