What poker hand was Wild Bill Hickok holding when he was killed in Deadwood in 1876?
Sam Malone, Decatur, Alabama
Hickok biographer, the late Joseph Rosa, addressed this many times—including in his book The Man and His Myth. He said, “In essence: Ellis ‘Doc’ T. Pierce, a self-styled blowhard (the opinion I have gleaned from an examination of some of his letters) claimed in his correspondence with writer Frank J. Wilstach in the 1920s that the cards Hickok held were the Ace of Spades,
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