Something Fishy
It was never clear if the duo was just friends. Calamity herself couldn’t keep her story straight. In her biography, she described Bill as a “friend”, but in 1902, she referred to him as her “affianced husband.”
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Final Hand
Seeing as Wild Bill played his final hand of cards just six weeks after he met Calamity, it seems their romance was more than likely just hot air. The famous gambler played the dead man’s hand of double aces and eights.