The legend in my family was never really that he was that wild -- he's my first cousin ~five times removed. The story told over and over again when I was growi

The legend in my family was never really that he was that wild -- he's my first cousin ~five times removed. The story told over and over again when I was growing up was of his death, shot in the back playing poker with his back to a window. He normally refused to sit with his back exposed, and it was used to remind us to be careful and not let us be tempted into doing something rash. The effect? I was mildly uncomfortable sitting with my back to a window in a restaurant into my 20s, and would avoid it if convenient. Though lots of people have "heard of him", no one I've ever met can be specific about what he did or who he was, other than part of the "old west". The lasting impression he's left on the modern world seems to be the dead man's hand -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand -- a term commonly associated with the hand he was (possibly apocryphally) holding at his death since the 1920s.