What was Wild Bill Hickok holding when he was shot?

Question

What was Wild Bill Hickok holding when he was shot?

Answer 1

Great big cigar in one hand,  shot glass of rye whiskey in the other. Hit the floor, died, never spilled a drop. Gent had  class!

Answer 2

His cadburys fruit and nut choacolate bar.

Answer 3

Bookish is probably right - Wild Bill Hickok spent a lot of time in bar-rooms.  He was also a sharp-shooter world class.

...here's some info on WBH

Characters of Deadwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

... considers his shaking hand signals and lack of eye contact to be disturbing. ... proprietor of the No. 10 saloon which is the site of Wild Bill Hickock's murder. ...

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charact...

Robert Donner (I)

The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickock (1995) TV episode .... Mayor Chamberlain Brown ... The Bloodshot Eye (1976) TV episode. The Last Hard Men (1976) ...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232817

Answer 4

His a**s.

Answer 5

Aces and Eights - the Deadman`s Hand

Answer 6

Legend has it that he was playing poker and was holding a pair of aces, a pair of eights and a queen.  (Hence, "aces and eights" is considered an unlucky hand.)

Answer 7

The post of Sheriff.

Answer 8

The "Dead-Man's Hand"...!!

Answer 9

Aces and Eights, now known as a "Dead Man's Hand".  He's buried beside Calamity Jane in a terraced cemetery in Deadwood, SD by the way.  Nearby is a local madam who was buried with her pet parrot Fred.

Answer 10

his balls

Answer 11

On August 2, 1876, while playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory, Hickok could not find an empty seat in the corner, where he always sat in order to protect himself against sneak attacks from behind, and instead sat with his back to one door and facing another. His paranoia was prescient: he was shot in the back of the head with a .45-caliber revolver by Jack McCall. Legend has it that Hickok was playing poker when he was shot, was holding a pair of aces, a pair of eights, and a queen. The fifth card is debated, or, as some say, had not yet been dealt. "Aces and eights" thus is known as the "Dead Man's Hand".