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An Inspiring Painting

Wild Bill Hickock at cards by N.C. Wyeth

I was really inspired by the painting of Wild Bill by N.C. Wyeth. It was on the cover of a compilation of western stories I owned back when I was in college. The guy at the back of the painting caught my eye. He looked the way I imagined Doc Holliday should have looked back […]

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500 Must Be a Peach of a Hand – A guide to gambling in the Old West

A faro case keeper and derringer on display at the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Tucson.

Poker is the most famous type of gambling that’s depicted in western movies. Who can forget Doc Holliday’s opening scene in Tombstone where he stabs Ed Bailey before raking in a fortune of coins and jewellery. It’s not just the movies though, Wild Bill Hickock’s unfortunate departure from the world while clutching aces and eights […]