Nuttal's Saloon #10 has been in Deadwood since 1876. It got it's name from being on the #10 mining claim. Wild Bill Hickock what shot in the back of the head while playing poker in Saloon #10. He was holding Aces & Eights in a five card draw game at the moment. Now infamously known as the Deadman's Hand. There was a lot of controversy over the hand. What suits were the cards? What was the 5th card? The townspeople settled on it being the black aces & eights with the nine of diamonds as the sidecard.
Jack McCall was the culprit who killed Hickock. At the time there wasn't much law in Deadwood. McCall was tried by miners and acquitted a few days later. He immediately left town. He showed up in Yankton, South Dakota where he bragged to everyone about killing Hickock. The townspeople took him seriously. They retried him then hung him. He should have kept his mouth shut. During the summer there is a reenactment of Hickock's killing at Saloon #10.
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