Per her request, she was buried next to Hickok in the cemetery near Deadwood. Jane lived on, ending her days suffering from acute alcoholism, working as a laundress and cook for a bordello in Terry, South Dakota, not far from Deadwood. Jane later claimed to have run McCall down, but there's no record of that. Jack McCall put an end to Hickok's life with a bullet to the back of Bill's head. Bill's eyesight was failing, perhaps from glaucoma. Were they lovers? Earlier that year Bill had married Agnes Thatcher, a circus owner, and he'd gone to Deadwood for the money available from gambling in frontier gold camps. There were only about 5,000 people in the town at the time. We do know that they arrived in Deadwood, South Dakota, on the same wagon train in 1876. In later years Jane would claim she and Bill married secretly, though there's absolutely no evidence to support that, either.
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