Panning for Profits: Uncovering Wealth Lessons from the Old West
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Wild Bill Hickock's Life
Wild Bill Hickock was a famous lawman and quick draw gunfighter in the east. By 1876 he's newly married wants to settle down with his wife but doesn't have the money for it. He decides to take advantage of the gold rush in Deadwood, California by going there to make more money as a gambler. The town people ultimately catch him and then put him on trial - because this is an illegal town they can just hold a formal legal trial. They recruit a group of miners who are almost always off the streets to sit down at Jack McCall's quasi-legal trial for murdering Wild Bill Hickock. And so that obviously brings on the last minutes of his life
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