Jack McCall

John "Jack" McCall (born in 1852 or 1853 in Jefferson County, Kentucky – died March 1, 1877(1877-03-01) in Yankton, Dakota Territory), known by the nickname "Crooked Nose Jack or Broken Nose Jack, was the killer of James "Wild Bill" Hickok, shooting him from behind, an act that among admirers of Hickok and students of Hickok's history has given rise to the phrase "the coward Jack McCall." Many of the details of McCall's life are lost. He was raised in Kentucky with three sisters but drifted west and became a buffalo hunter . By 1876, he was living in a gold mining camp called Deadwood, under the alias of Bill Sutherland. On August 2, 1876, in the Nuttal & Mann's #10 Saloon in Deadwood, McCall shot Hickok in the back of the head with a...