Jack (John) McCall, on Aug. 30, 1876, at 3:00, in Deadwood, S. Dakota, (Dakota Territory),while playing Poker. He was shot in the back of the head with the bullet coming out the centre of his right cheek causing instant death. He was holding 2 aces and 2 eights(two pairs) known to this day as "the dead man's hand" It was published on the Black Hills Pioneer, with headlines reading: Assassination Of Wild Bill He Was Shot Through The Head.
According to James Mic Regan, author of the book, Wild Bill Hickok and the Wrath of the Dead Rabbits, Wild Bill Hickok was killed on August 2, 1876 while playing poker in the Number 10 Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota). The killing allegedly was in revenge of Wild Bill's earlier shooting of a member of an Irish-American gang.
Martha Jane Cannary, known as Calamity Jane (1852-1903), was a notorious American frontier woman in the days of the Wild West. She usually dressed in men's clothing and passed as a man to get jobs such as a muleskinner, railroad worker, and army scout. She could drink, gamble, and shoot with the best (or worst) of her male companions. For a while she travelled with Wild Bill Hickok and was in Deadwood when he was killed. She later claimed they had been married and she was buried beside him.
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hiickok was shot in the back of the head at Nuttal and Mann's Saloon Number 10 on 2 August 1876 by John "Broken Nose Jack" McCall. It was not South Daokta at that time, but it was in the boom town of Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
The cast of Trouble on the Trail - 1954 includes: Robert Blake Andy Devine as Jingles John Doucette Byron Foulger Martha Hyer as Kidnapped Singer Guy Madison as Wild Bill Hickok
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Wild Bill Hickok died in Deadwood.
Mt. Moriah Cemetary, Deadwood. S. Dakota
Annie Oakley is buried in South Dakota next to Wild Bill Hickok due to her deep admiration for him and his legacy in the American West. Although she was married to Frank Butler, Oakley and Hickok shared a strong bond of friendship and mutual respect, as they were both iconic figures of the Wild West. Their burial sites in Deadwood symbolize the connection between two legendary performers in American history.
Died and buried in Deadwood, Black Hills in South Dakota
The duration of I Killed Wild Bill Hickok is 1.05 hours.
Jack McCall, the man who in August 1876 shot Wild Bill Hickok in the head while Hickok played poker in the Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, was hanged in Yankton on March 1, 1877. After his execution, McCall was buried in the Yankton Catholic cemetery -- with the rope still around his neck
Wild Bill Hickok was born on May 27, 1837.
Wild Bill Hickok Memorial was created in 1930.
I Killed Wild Bill Hickok was created on 1956-06-16.
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ended on 1958-05-16.
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok was created on 1951-04-15.