Calamity Jane: Legend or Myth?
Few women in Black Hills history are as enigmatic as Calamity Jane. Stories of her exploits abound; many of which are her own invention.
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok
Mount Moriah Cemetery
Many early residents of Deadwood were buried at Mt. Moriah or at its predecessor, the Ingleside Cemetery, down the hill...
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...
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...
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”....
Fort Laramie and the Black Hills
The confluence of the Laramie and North Platte Rivers (in current-day southeastern Wyoming) was pivotal in the history...
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....
The Story of Deadwood
Few frontier towns conjure up romantic, rough-and-tumble Old West images like Deadwood. The discovery of gold in French...