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Wild Bill Hickok was an American frontiersman, army scout and lawman who helped bring order to the frontier West.
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Overall, it was reported that Hickok had killed more than 100 men during his lifetime.
Hickok's national reputation as the West's finest and fastest gunslinger soon led him to the stage. He starred as himself in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in 1872 and 1873.
But the frontier called to him, and Hickok returned. During a heated poker game in 1876 in Deadwood, South Dakota,
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he was shot and killed by Jack McCall, whose motives for the murder were never revealed. McCall was convicted for murder and hanged.
Meanwhile, even in death, Hickok's legend grew. The cards he was holding at the time -- a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights -- came to be known as "the dead man's hand."
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