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While in Deadwood, South Dakota, Wild Bill Hickok became a regular poker player at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon. On the afternoon of August 2, 1876, he was playing cards with his back to the door.
- Wild Bill Hickok, dead for 113 years, had a lot to do with it legalization. The day Hickok died, he was playing five-card stud at the Nuttal and Mann's Saloon. Legend has it that he preferred to.
- In 1979, Wild Bill Hickok was inducted as a charter member into the World Series of Poker's Hall of Fame. The original site of Nuttal & Mann's was located near what is present day 624 Main Street. You can see Wild Bill's gravesite at Mount Moriah Cemeter y.
James Butler Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois, on May 27th, 1837. After his parents, William Alonzo Hickok and Polly Butler got married, they decided to move to Illinois and start a family.
Over the span of twelve years, they had seven children: five boys and two girls. James Hickok better known today as, Wild Bill Hickok, was the youngest boy of the family.
He got his entire family involved but his association with the group came to an end the moment his father passed away. Hickok was only seventeen years old at the time and it motivated him to take a move to Utica, Illinois in hopes of having a better life.
He ended up working as a wagon driver on the Illinois and Michigan Canal but he was quickly let go from his position for mistreating the horses, even though he swore that he never did.
About two years after Hickok had moved away from his family, his brother Lorenzo decided to join up with him. They headed to the Kansas territory to meet up with other progressive groups that had a passion for abolishing slavery.
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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You already know the answer if you know about Bill Massie, and if you don't, you need to.
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Massie was a Missouri River steamboat pilot who went in search of riches when gold was discovered in the Black Hills. He didn't find metal in a mine, but in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood on August 2, 1876.
Massie preferred poker to prospecting, and he was pretty good at it too. He had been playing at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon most of the day, in a spirited game with saloon owner Carl Mann, Charlie Rich and a fourth guy who lost his stake and left. When Hickok came into the saloon, he was offered the vacant seat at the table.
Hickok hesitated. He never sat with his back to the room, so he asked Rich if he would change seats with him. But Rich liked his seat against the wall just fine. Hickok sat down, directly across from Massie.
He ended up working as a wagon driver on the Illinois and Michigan Canal but he was quickly let go from his position for mistreating the horses, even though he swore that he never did.
About two years after Hickok had moved away from his family, his brother Lorenzo decided to join up with him. They headed to the Kansas territory to meet up with other progressive groups that had a passion for abolishing slavery.
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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You already know the answer if you know about Bill Massie, and if you don't, you need to.
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Massie was a Missouri River steamboat pilot who went in search of riches when gold was discovered in the Black Hills. He didn't find metal in a mine, but in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood on August 2, 1876.
Massie preferred poker to prospecting, and he was pretty good at it too. He had been playing at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon most of the day, in a spirited game with saloon owner Carl Mann, Charlie Rich and a fourth guy who lost his stake and left. When Hickok came into the saloon, he was offered the vacant seat at the table.
Hickok hesitated. He never sat with his back to the room, so he asked Rich if he would change seats with him. But Rich liked his seat against the wall just fine. Hickok sat down, directly across from Massie.
As they played, Massie won big. Hickok finally had a hand he thought was a winner—reportedly a pair of aces and a pair of eights—but he never got a chance to play it. Jack McCall walked into the bar and shot Hickok through the head.
The ball of lead exited Hickok's right cheek and lodged in Massie's left wrist. Massie, at first, thought Hickok had shot him in anger. He apparently stared at Hickok in disbelief, before he realized what had actually happened.
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Massie was subpoenaed to testify at McCall's trial, but he refused. 'I won't go down there to testify! Think of the disgrace it would be for my daughters to have it in all the papers that I'd been in a poker game where a man was murdered,' he said (apparently not yet understanding the historical significance of the murder). He admitted he also feared for his job. In the end, a bench warrant was issued, and Massie was forced to appear—a living evidence exhibit, as he showed off the murdering bullet in his wrist.
Massie went back to steamboats and eventually caught on to the significance of his wrist jewelry. Whenever Massie docked in Bismarck, North Dakota, he 'enjoyed swaggering around the town, reminding his friends that the ‘bullet that killed Wild Bill has come to town,'' reported Dakota Datebook, a radio program aired by Prairie Public Broadcasting.
That bullet went to Massie's grave with him, when he died in 1910 and was buried in a St. Louis cemetery.
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Arizona's Journalist of the Year, Jana Bommersbach has won an Emmy and two Lifetime Achievement Awards. She also cowrote and appeared on the Emmy-winning Outrageous Arizona and has written two true crime books, a children's book and the historical novel Cattle Kate.
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