英语词汇deadman-s hand的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

deadman’s hand. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, only 39, had come to Deadwood, Dakota Territory, in 1876 to make a stake for the bride he had just taken, but lawless elements, fear- ing his appointment as town marshall, hired gunman Jack Mc- Call to assassinate him, giving McCall 300 dollars and all the cheap whiskey he needed for courage. Wild Bill was playing cards in the No. 10 saloon (his back to the open door for only the second time in his days of gunfighting) when McCall sneaked in and shot him in the back of the head, the bullet passing through his brain and striking the cardplayer across the table from him in the arm. Hickok’s last hand, which he held tight in a death grip, was aces and eights, which has ever since been called the deadman’s hand. McCall, freed by a packed miner’s court, was later convicted by a federal court, his plea of “double jeopardy” disregarded on the ground that the miner’s court had no jurisdiction. He was later hanged for his crime.

词汇	deadman-s hand
词源	deadman’s hand. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, only 39, had come to Deadwood, Dakota Territory, in 1876 to make a stake for the bride he had just taken, but lawless elements, fear- ing his appointment as town marshall, hired gunman Jack Mc- Call to assassinate him, giving McCall 300 dollars and all the cheap whiskey he needed for courage. Wild Bill was playing cards in the No. 10 saloon (his back to the open door for only the second time in his days of gunfighting) when McCall sneaked in and shot him in the back of the head, the bullet passing through his brain and striking the cardplayer across the table from him in the arm. Hickok’s last hand, which he held tight in a death grip, was aces and eights, which has ever since been called the deadman’s hand. McCall, freed by a packed miner’s court, was later convicted by a federal court, his plea of “double jeopardy” disregarded on the ground that the miner’s court had no jurisdiction. He was later hanged for his crime.
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