Editing Dead man's hand (section)

==Use of the phrase==
The expression, "dead man's hand", appears to have had some currency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although no one connected it to Hickok until the 1920s.<ref name="Dope">[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/275/was-wild-bill-hickok-holding-the-dead-mans-hand-when-he-was-slain "Was Wild Bill Hickok Holding the Dead Mans Hand When He Was Slain''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904162335/http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/275/was-wild-bill-hickok-holding-the-dead-mans-hand-when-he-was-slain |date=2012-09-04 }}; [[The Straight Dope]] article; retrieved March 2013.</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=https://thecasinowizard.com/news/the-dead-mans-hand-explained-what-is-the-dead-mans-hand-in-poker/| title=The Dead Man's Hand Explained – What is the Dead Man's Hand in Poker?| website=Casino Wizard| access-date=2020-05-06| archive-date=2020-06-10| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610013604/https://thecasinowizard.com/news/the-dead-mans-hand-explained-what-is-the-dead-mans-hand-in-poker/| url-status=live}}</ref> The earliest detailed reference to it was 1886, where it was described as a "[[full house (poker)|full house]] consisting of three jacks and a pair of tens" ({{cards|J}} {{cards|J}} {{cards|J}} {{cards|10}} {{cards|10}}).<ref>[http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607E&L=ADS-L&P=R910&I=-3  ''Discussion''] {{Webarchive | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020093747/http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607E&L=ADS-L&P=R910&I=-3 |date=2007-10-20}}; July 3, 1886, article in the ''[[Grand Forks Herald|Grand Forks Daily Herald]]''; at [[Linguist List]] online; retrieved February 2013.</ref> Three jacks and red sevens ({{cards|J}} {{cards|J}} {{cards|J}} {{hearts|7}} {{diamonds|7}}) are called the dead man's hand in the 1903 ''Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences''.<ref>Cora Linn Morrison Daniels, et al; editor; ''Volume 2''.</ref> The 1907 edition of ''[[Edmond Hoyle|Hoyle]]'s Games'' refers to the hand as jacks and eights ({{cards|J}} {{cards|J}} {{cards|8}} {{cards|8}} {{cards|?}}).<ref>[[Edmond Hoyle]] and editors; ''Hoyle's Games''; 1907; p. 405</ref>