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James Butler "Wild Bill” Hickok (1837-1876)
-- A gunman and lawman,
Hickok
served as a constable in the 1860’s and as town marshal of Abilene,
Kansas in
1872. He was credited with killing thirty to eighty-five men
including Sam Strawhorn, Bill Mulvey, Bill Thompson, and David McCanles.
On August 2, 1876, he was killed by an alcoholic drifter named
Jack McCall while playing poker in Nuttall's No. 10
Saloon in
Deadwood,
South Dakota. When he was
killed, he was holding a poker hand of aces and eights, thereafter known
as the Dead Man’s Hand.
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