Wild Bill: 'Dead Man's Hand‪'‬

The short story you are about to read is my own personal version/idea of what Wild Bill Hickok might have been like when he spoke with the now famous ‘Dime-Novelist’, Ned Buntline back in the ‘Wild West’ of the 1870’s.

It matters little that neither man felt compelled to ‘tell the truth’ and probably rarely did --- but back then the ‘non-cowboys’ all over the world gobbled up Ned’s ‘scratchings’ just like most of us can’t wait for Taylor Sheridan’s next digital instalment of Yellowstone or 1883 or the soon to explode onto your TV screen, 1926!
(Starring Harrison Ford/ Hans Solo --- yet another cowboy at heart!)

So kick off your boots, hang up your gunbelt, pour yourself a shot of ‘rot-gut’ for you are about to sit down at my imaginary poker table in the notorious gold mine town of Deadwood --- and you know WHO will be sitting opposite you! Enjoy --- and don’t make any sudden moves!