For roughnecks in search of trouble, Deadwood was the place to go. An outlaw town its very beginnings as a mining camp violated government treaties with the Sioux Deadwood soon acquired a reputation that dime novels could hardly exaggerate. It attracted both the great and the gritty. Calamity Jane lived there, Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back there and Buffalo Bill was an irregular visitor, not to mention Seth Bullock, Mineral Jack, Slippery Sam, Cold Deck Johnny, and Belle Haskell, the best-known madam in town.To reform the town's notorious habits, Federal Judge Granville G. Bennett...
For roughnecks in search of trouble, Deadwood was the place to go. An outlaw town its very beginnings as a mining camp violated government treaties wi...