Wyatt Earp in the Early Black Hills
Wyatt Earp has been popularized as the fearless frontier lawman of the Kansas cow towns, and as the...
Cowboy History
James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok
James Butler Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois, on May 27, 1837. As a boy in rural...
Seth Bullock
If the Black Hills of the late 1800s and first decades of the 1900s ever had “ a man for...
Poker Alice Tubbs
Alice Ivers was born on February 17, 1853, in Devonshire, England. She and her family moved to Virginia...
Laura Ingalls Wilder
In September of 1974, NBC Television introduced America to the Ingalls family, a pioneer family that had made...
Jedediah Smith, the Bear, and the Black Hills
Jedediah S. Smith (1799-1831), trapper, fur trader, and explorer in the American West, was one of the most...
Jack McCall & The Murder of Wild Bill Hickok
Historical Black Hills characters, both factual and fictional, have taken center stage in the successful HBO series “DEADWOOD”....
1874 Custer Expedition to the Black Hills
The struggle for control of the Black Hills region is a story in itself. If one were to pick a...
Captain Jack Crawford
Few characters in Black Hills history were ever as flamboyant, or as poetic, as John Wallace “Jack” Crawford. Crawford was...
Charlie Utter
Historical Black Hills characters, both factual and fictional, have taken center stage in the successful HBO series Deadwood....