He was playing poker in a Deadwood saloon when he was shot dead by Jack McCall in 1876
The true total of men he killed in gunfights is closer to 10, rather than 
the 21 to... [DOC] [TLE] Wild Bill - Vernon Johns Society [PAR] His only claim to fame was that he was the man who killed Wild Bill Hickok ... 
1876 -- meets Calamity Jane at Fort Laramie; they both were heading for ...