Dead Man’s Hand
Black aces and eights. Wild Bill Hickok was in the middle of a hand of poker when he was shot at Nuttal & Mann’s Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory. Wild Bill Hickok was a larger-than-life legendary gunman, sometime outlaw, sometime lawman, sometime show shooter, and regular professional gambler. There is remarkably heated debate among historians over what Wild Bill Hickock’s fifth card was or if he even perhaps had discarded it and had yet to draw a new one […]
