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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.

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