What became of Hickok’s weapons? Rick Seward Ord, Nebraska James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok was allegedly carrying a .32 caliber Smith and Wesson No. 2 Army with a six-inch barrel when he was gunned down by Jack McCall in Deadwood, South Dakota, on August 2, 1876. Deadwood Sheriff Seth Bullock took the dead man’s possessions and gave the pistol to settle a debt Hickok owed to storekeeper Adolph Fishel. On November 18, 2013, this pistol came up for auction in San Francisco, but t


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