In 1979, Wild Bill Hickok was inducted as a charter member into the World Series of Poker’s Hall of Fame. The original site of Nuttal & Mann’s was located near what is present day 624 Main Street. You can see Wild Bill’s gravesite at Mount Moriah Cemeter y. Wild Bill Hickok He came to the West as a stagecoach driver and then became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. On August 2, 1876, Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. Wild Bill Hickok was a lawman, a stagecoach driver, a sharpshooter, and maybe even a spy during the Civil War. He ended up in Deadwood in 1876. There he was shot in the back of the head by gambler Jack ('Broken Nose') McCall in the Number 10 Saloon.

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James Butler Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois, on May 27th, 1837. After his parents, William Alonzo Hickok and Polly Butler got married, they decided to move to Illinois and start a family. Pioneer slots (pty) ltd.

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Over the span of twelve years, they had seven children: five boys and two girls. James Hickok better known today as, Wild Bill Hickok, was the youngest boy of the family.

When Hickok was young, he was very passionate about abolishing slavery, joining a Quaker group that helped escaped slaves find their way to Canada.

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He got his entire family involved but his association with the group came to an end the moment his father passed away. Hickok was only seventeen years old at the time and it motivated him to take a move to Utica, Illinois in hopes of having a better life.

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He ended up working as a wagon driver on the Illinois and Michigan Canal but he was quickly let go from his position for mistreating the horses, even though he swore that he never did.

About two years after Hickok had moved away from his family, his brother Lorenzo decided to join up with him. They headed to the Kansas territory to meet up with other progressive groups that had a passion for abolishing slavery.