I’ve been reading Hard Knocks: A Life Story of the Vanishing West by Harry Young, the bartender who allegedly served “Wild Bill” Hickok his last drink. Is it accurate?
Brandon Rosenberg
Tustin, California
Records show that Harry “Sam” Young was a bartender at Nuttall & Mann’s saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, and he did pour “Wild Bill” Hickok’s last drink. He was one of the men Jack McCall misfired at as he ran out of the saloon after killing Hickok. Young testified

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