Well there goes THAT image and legend!
What’s next? Wild Bill Hickok dancing around a maypole?
And what they forgot to also mention is that he had quiche for lunch.
All is not lost. Billy still has SOME cred. They used sledgehammers and cannonballs to play the game back then on the frontier.
Wooden balls and mallets didn’t come along until the wimpy east coast libs started playing it, and gave it the sissy name. When Billy played it they called it “Whackthe#&%!thing”. Times have really changed. Would I lie?