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WILD BILL HICKOCK:
THE PREMONITION
by DOn Crowley
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James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock (1837-1876)
became famous throughout the whole of 19th century America for his
skills with weaponry, gambling and his outrageous, larger-than-life
personality. Like many denizens of the Old West, Wild Bill traveled
from town to town trying his hand at different professions, but it was
his marksmanship, or perhaps his own outrageous accounts of it, that
earned him renown.
His exploits and wild tales had made him more than a few enemies
and Wild Bill fell into the habit of finding a seat in the corner of
saloons to protect himself from surprise attacks. On the day of August
1, 1876, however, Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10 was packed and
Hickock could only be seated at the center of the room, with his back
to a door. Jack McCall entered the room and shot Wild Bill from behind
as he played poker. Hickock's cards (two aces, two eights and a jack)
have since come to be known as the "Dead Man's Hand." |
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