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What is currently considered the dead man's hand card combination received its notoriety from a legend that it was the five-card stud or five-card draw hand, held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall on August 2, 1876, in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon, Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights.
The song's opening lines are: Oh! The Deadwood Stage is a-rollin' on over the plains, with the curtains flappin' and the driver slappin' the reins. Beautiful sky! A wonderful day! Whip crack-away!, Whip crack-away!, Whip crack-away! It goes on to contain a macabre line about Wild Bill Hickok, "on his gun there's more than twenty-seven notches". [4]
A photograph of James Butler Hickok, commonly known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, captured by Charles Scholten in Springfield, Missouri in 1865. According to Crease, in 1989, the photograph resurfaced at ...
Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West. By tradition, the American flag flies over the cemetery 24 hours a day, rather than merely from sunrise to sunset. [1]
The Old Style Saloon No. 10 is located in Deadwood, South Dakota, United States.The original location is best known as the site where the American Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok was assassinated by the Coward Jack McCall while playing a game of poker on August 2, 1876.
1953 musicale Western film with Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) at the mining boom-town Deadwood's saloon in the old Dakota Territory in the 1870s. In the American frontier Old West of the Dakota Territory in the Black Hills during the 1870s, tough-talking, hard-riding, straight-shooting Calamity Jane rides into the gold mining boom-town on top of the Deadwood stagecoach ...
Calamity Jane (A Musical Western) is a stage musical based on the historical figure of frontierswoman Calamity Jane.The non-historical, somewhat farcical plot involves the authentic Calamity Jane's professional associate Wild Bill Hickok, and presents the two as having a contentious relationship that ultimately proves to be a facade for mutually amorous feelings.