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.

James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok A few weeks back I was playing some cards and ended up with two pair: Aces and Eights. I was immediately asked by the player opposite me what the significance of ...

Most games of cards don’t ascribe to the title of Groucho Marx’s TV show “You Bet Your Life,” but there was a notable one that occurred in August of 1876 in Deadwood, Dakota… ...

Born almost two centuries ago, Wild Bill Hickok is still remembered as a great lawman and a feared gunslinger, sometimes with either foot firmly planted on opposite sides of the law. Pine Bluff ...

Wild Bill Hickok was holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights at the moment he was shot. The hand of cards has come to be known as the “Dead Man’s Hand”.

Wild Bill Hickok was appearing with Buffalo Bill Cody in ‘The Scouts of the Prairie’ at Richmond’s Lyceum Hall on October 8, 1873. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.