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American frontier
The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912.
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Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.
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Carl Breihan
Carl Breihan (1916–1998) was an American historian and writer.
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Collectible card game
A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) or many other names, is a kind of strategy card game that was created in 1993 and consists of specially designed sets of playing cards.
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Dakota Territory
The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
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Dead man's hand in popular culture
The dead man's hand, a legendary "cursed" poker hand usually depicted as consisting of the ace of spades, ace of clubs, eight of spades and eight of clubs with an undefined fifth card, has appeared or been referenced in numerous works of popular culture.
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Deadwood, South Dakota
Deadwood (Lakota: Owáyasuta; "To approve or confirm things") is a city in South Dakota, United States, and the county seat of Lawrence County.
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Doomtown
Doomtown: Reloaded (originally Deadlands:Doomtown) is an out-of-print collectible card game, a companion to the Deadlands roleplaying setting.
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Edmond Hoyle
Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 29 August 1769) was a writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games.
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Five-card stud
Five-card stud is the earliest form of the card game stud poker, originating during the American Civil War, but is less commonly played today than many other more popular poker games.
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Folk hero
A folk hero or national hero is a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with the sole salient characteristic being the imprinting of his or her name, personality and deeds in the popular consciousness of a people.
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Gunfighter
Gunslinger and gunfighter are literary words used historically to refer to men in the American Old West who had gained a reputation of being dangerous with a gun and had participated in gunfights and shootouts.
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Jack McCall
John McCall; (1852 or 1853 – March 1, 1877), also known as "Crooked Nose" or "Broken Nose Jack", was the murderer of Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok.
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Kicker (poker)
A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank.
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Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as the LVMPD or Metro) is an independent agency and a joint city-county police force for the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada.
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Linguist List
The LINGUIST List is a major online resource for the academic field of linguistics.
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List of poker hands
In poker, players construct sets of five playing cards, called hands, according to the rules of the game being played.
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Nuttal & Mann's
Nuttal & Mann’s was a saloon located in Deadwood, southern Dakota Territory.
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Poker
Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill.
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Suit (cards)
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The Straight Dope
"The Straight Dope" was an online question-and-answer newspaper column published from 1973 to 2018 in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.
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Wild Bill Hickok
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his work across the frontier as a drover, wagon master, soldier, spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man's_hand
