Wild Bill Hickok was murdered by Jack McCall. The Deadwood newspaper indicates Hickok was killed on August 2, 1876. According to a letter Bullock sent a friend, he arrived in Deadwood on August 3, 1876. If Bullock's letter is accurate, he never met Hickok.

According to contemporary news accounts, McCall shot Hickok in the back of the head while he sat playing poker; McCall was found not guilty by an impromptu camp court, after which he promptly left town. McCall