Can Gold Still Be Found in Deadwood?
The Black Hills Gold Rush brought hordes of prospectors and settlers to the Black Hills. As more and...
Black Hills Gold Rush
Black Hills Gold Rush
The Black Hills Gold Rush
The Black Hills Gold Rush began in 1874, when Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led a group of...
Sharpshooter Daniel Boone May
Daniel Boone May, known as “the fastest gun in the Dakota,” protected the Deadwood Stage from outlaws, murderers,...
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...
Potato Creek Johnny
Sometimes we find a person who is not so much an icon but a caricature of a place,...
The Story of Deadwood
Few frontier towns conjure up romantic, rough-and-tumble Old West images like Deadwood. The discovery of gold in French...
The Story of Custer
When Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer set out from Fort Abraham Lincoln (present-day Bismarck, North Dakota) in 1874 with over...