Wild Bill Hickok

Wild Bill Hickok is one of those rare people who was already a living legend before he hit forty — and then made himself immortal by dying in the most dramatically ironic way possible. Scout, lawman, gambler, showman: the man somehow squeezed about five frontier careers into less than four decades on earth. What really gets me is the Dead Man's Hand story — shot from behind mid-poker-game in Deadwood in 1876, holding aces and eights. You genuinely cannot script that. And more than a century later, in 1979, he got inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, which feels both completely absurd and totally right. He's the template for every rugged Western hero Hollywood ever cooked up, except the original is always messier, stranger, and more interesting than the copies.

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Name (English)

Wild Bill Hickok

Name (Japanese)

ワイルド・ビル・ヒコック

Reading

わいるど・びる・ひこっく

Born

May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876

Origin

Troy Grove, Illinois, United States

Occupation

poker player / gunfighter / gold miner / hunter / soldier

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

Awards & achievements

• 1979 Poker Hall of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Bill%20Hickok
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44677

Tags

• Illinois
• poker player
• gunfighter
• gold miner

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.