I wrote a post last week that made reference to Jack McCall, the man who murdered Wild Bill Hickok. The shooting itself had a strange outcome - not Wild Bill's death, that was the inevitable result of being shot in the back of the head. But the journey of the bullet afterwards was quite bizarre: "If Wild Bill Hickok was buried in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, why was the bullet that killed him buried in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1910?"
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Interesting! I lived in the Black Hills for several years, and never heard that part about Wild Bill’s demise.
ReplyDeleteA pair of aces and a pair of eights ... I think it's called the "dead man's hand" in poker because of Hickok. We visited Deadwood last summer on our RV road trip, and went into both saloons that claim to be where Hickok died (they're side by side and may have been one building at the time). I didn't know about the bullet either. The HBO show "Deadwood", although historically accurate in some ways, and dramatically inaccurate in a lot of others, neglected to mention that part of the story. The stagecoach used in the TV show is a tourist ride down the main drag now, and the hotel Seth Bullock built is still operating. It's quite an interesting place.
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