| On this day, Wild Bill Hickok, born James Butler Hickok, a frontiersman, marksman, gambler, and legend of the American West, was murdered in the city of Deadwood, in what is now South Dakota. He was visiting the goldfields of the Black Hills. There, at a poker table in the Number Ten saloon, a drunken stranger named Jack McCall shot and killed Wild Bill. McCall's motive was never learned; he was tried, convicted of murder, and hanged on March 1, ... |