A few more links about Wild Bill Hickok:
http://www.historynet.com/magazines/wild_west/3026831.html
http://www.theoutlaws.com/outlaws8.htm
Nice, thanks.
http://www.theoutlaws.com/outlaws8.htm
...On 2 August 1876, Wild Bill Hickok sat playing poker in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood. He was older, slower, and suffering the early stages of blindness, so he normally sat with his back to the wall, where he could study the room. On this day, his back was to the door. He was shot and killed with a bullet to the back of his head by a drunken stranger named Jack McCall, who may have lost $110 to Hickok in a card game the day before. McCall would claim that Hickok had shot and killed his brother in Abilene, and there is a record of one Lew McCall being shot to death by a lawman. The hand that Wild Bill held, two pairs — black aces and black eights — has gone down in history as the “Dead Man’s Hand.” Legend claims his fifth card was the Jack of Diamonds, but some maintain it was the Queen of Diamonds. Calamity, on learning of Bill’s death, stormed all over Deadwood looking for McCall.