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Gunfighter and scout Wild Bill Hickok is buried in Ingelside Cemetery, Deadwood, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. He had been killed the day before by being shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall while engrossed in game of draw poker in Nuttal And Mann's Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood. The moment is immortalized in the song Burial Of Wild Bill by Captain Jack Crawford, known as The Cowboy Poet.
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