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Travel Bug Dog Tag Dead man's hand

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Schieß ein Foto mit der "Dead man' s hand" vor irgendeinem Casino.

Schicke die "Dead man's hand" nach dem 250ten "Schuss" auf die Rückreise in Richtung erstem Casino.


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After the 250th "shoot "send the "Dead man's hand" back into the direction of the first casino.

About This Item

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The dead man's hand is a two-pair poker hand, namely "aces and eights". The hand gets its name from the legend of it being the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder (August 2, 1876). It is accepted that the hand included the aces and eights of both the black suits; although his biographer, Joseph Rosa, says no contemporary citation for his hand has been found, the "accepted version is that the cards were the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, two black eights (clubs and spades), and either the jack of diamonds or the queen of diamonds as the "kicker". The term, before the murder of Hickok, referred to a variety of hands. The earliest found reference to a "dead man's hand" is 1886, where it was described as "three jacks and a pair of tens."

There are various claims as to the identity of Hickok's fifth card and there is also some reason to believe that he had discarded one card. The draw was interrupted by the shooting and he never got the fifth card he was due.

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Tracking History (9576.3mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 2/11/2012 Born2Run GeoCaching retrieved it from SMILLY Wisconsin   Visit Log

Found this near Wascott WI, will place it soon.

Dropped Off 2/4/2012 scott543 placed it in SMILLY Wisconsin - 4.86 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/14/2012 scott543 took it to The Hidden Bridge! Minnesota - 9.85 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/14/2012 scott543 took it to Stillwater Flood Minnesota - 63.64 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/8/2012 scott543 took it to SL's - Scout / Pieper's Wisconsin - 6.82 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/8/2012 scott543 took it to Scullenberger Secret Stash Wisconsin - 84.33 miles  Visit Log
Visited 1/2/2012 scott543 took it to Birthday Mondays (January 2012) -- A Social Event Minnesota - 33.02 miles  Visit Log
Visited 12/28/2011 scott543 took it to Taking you for a "Loop" Chisago Style Wisconsin - 39.5 miles  Visit Log
Visited 12/26/2011 scott543 took it to Harwood Ice Age Trail Wisconsin - 35.36 miles  Visit Log
Visited 11/27/2011 scott543 took it to Yellow River Cache BPBF Wisconsin - 319.03 miles  Visit Log
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