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  Deadwood, South Dakota Revealed - About WILD BILL HICKOK
James Butler Hickok, son, and fourth of six children, of William Alonzo and Polly (Butler) Hickok, was born in Homer (Troy Grove), La Salle Co., Illinois on 27 May 1837.
Bill was Utter's "pardner," and I was introduced at once.
At the trial it was proved that the murdered was hired to do his work by gamblers who feared the time when better citizens should appoint Bill the champion of law and order--a post which he formerly sustained in Kansas border life, with credit to his manhood and his courage.
www.deadwood.searchroots.com /hickok.htm   (1329 words)

  
 Wild Bill Hickok Poker News and Poker Articles
1837–August 2, 1876) was better known as Wild Bill Hickok.
The saloon proprietor claimed that, at the time of his death, Hickok held a pair of aces and a pair of eights, all cards fl, which has since been known as a dead man's hand.
Wild Bill Hickok HistoryLink - Digital Deadwood (http://www.digitaldeadwood.com/historylink/people/hickok.html)
hidrogas.i8.com /billhickock.html   (845 words)

  
 Landsmen - Contents Summary
Emigration Through Hamburg, 1869-70 - Overview, with list of 315 Jewish famine victims aided by the Konigsberg Relief Committee, mostly from Suwalk-Lomza towns.
Pilviski and Vicinity Pioneers in Des Moines - settling down with Wild Bill Hickock in the post-Civil War era.
Kalmar and Vicinity, Sweden - List of Suwalk-Lomzers living there in the 19th century.
www.jewishgen.org /SuwalkLomza/Contents.html   (4887 words)

  
 Calamity Jane
In 1876 she appeared in Deadwood, S.Dak., dressed in men's clothes and boasting of her marksmanship and her exploits as a pony-express rider and as a scout with Custer's forces.
In her later years she toured the West in a burlesque show and appeared at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. She died in poverty and obscurity in Deadwood, where she is buried beside Wild Bill Hickock.
See biographies by D. Aikman (1927) and Mrs.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0809840.html   (199 words)

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