In 1886, ten years after Hickok's death, the Dead man's hand was explained as being .... Wild Bill Hickok: the man and his myth, University Press of Kansas.
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Bronze sculpture of Wild Bill Hickok sculpted by Richard Masloski his very last hand Union spy in the Civil War, scout for General Custer, Marshal of Abilene, stage actor with Buffalo Bill -; "Wild Bill" Hickok, the Prince of Pistoleers, the greatest gunfighter who ever lived . . .
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Wild Bill Hickok & the Deadman's Hand When the struggle between man and bear was over, Bill was severely wounded, but the bear lay dead on the ground from Hickok's six inch knife.
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From under his coat, McCall pulled a double-action .45 pistol, shouted “Take that!” and shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Hickok had been holding a pair of eights, and a pair of Aces, which has ever since been known as the "dead man's hand."
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On a recent pilgrimage to Troy Grove, Illinois to visit the home of Wild Bill Hickok, one of our company happened to mention that according to legend Wild Bill was shot while holding "black aces and eights." This hand has come to be known as the "dead man's hand." Is the story apocryphal, and if it is true,
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Death of Wild Bill Hickok at the card table. There are a number of poker hands that are famous for one reason or another, but perhaps the most sinister is the Dead Man's Hand, so named because it was the hand held by James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok when he met his untimely demise.
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Wild Bill had taken off his guns for the night, but still had a six-inch knife stuck in his belt, while the bear was equipped with numerous He also said that he had out-shot one man in front of him with the pistol in his left hand, and plugged a second man behind him by shooting over his shoulder with his right hand,
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The hand that Wild Bill held, two pairs -- black aces and black eights -- has gone down in history as the "Dead Man's Hand." Legend claims his fifth card was the jack of diamonds, but some maintain it was the queen of diamonds.
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We'd heard of this poker hand but weren't sure where the name originated. We thought a Yahoo! search might prove enlightening, so we typed "dead man's hand" into the search box, According to legend, this was the hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding on August 2, 1876 at the Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, South Dakota,
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