Did Wild Bill Hickok really have the Dead Man’s Hand of aces and eights when he was killed?

Did Wild Bill Hickok really have the Dead Man’s Hand of aces and eights when he was killed? John Wendland Parsippany, New Jersey Nobody knows what hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding. The late Joe Rosa, Hickok’s biographer, said, “The bottom line is nobody seems to know what particular poker game they were playing at the No. 10 Saloon in Deadwood [Dakota Territory] that day.” I doubt if anyone thought the details were important at the time. During the chaos after the shooting, th