6/30/08: The Wild West gold rush town of Deadwood

We are in a Wild West town that is an entire historic district. This town grew out of the last great gold rush in the USA – the gold rush to the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1876. It has a very colorful wild west past with such notables as Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and others. It’s most famous cold blooded murder was that of Wild Bill (notorious for his sharp shooting) by a sore looser. He was shot while playing poker with a hand of 2 black aces and 2 black 8s, now known as “dead man’s hand.”