Which cards was “Wild Bill” Hickok holding when he was murdered? -Michael Weirens of Sartell, Minnesota Legend says James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok held the Dead Man’s Hand, or aces and eights, when Jack McCall shot him in the No. 10 Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, in 1876. Here’s how Hickok biographer, the late Joseph Rosa, explained it: “Ellis T, Peirce, a self-styled barber-surgeon and blowhard...claimed in his correspondence with Frank J. Wilstach in the 1920s that th


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